poor london

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0sm0se said:
Oh I still feel bad, its a question of intent. At least as I understand, it is not our intent to murder civilians as they try to live their lives unlike fundamentalist-terrorist groups.

I'd be more inclined to believe that the terror group's primary intent was to create fear. Killing is the means, and although thirty something people have died, (it coudl've been much higher), and the public transport in zone 1 closed, the terrorists have been most successful in receiving 24/7 media attention. We're being told "work as usual", and to stay calm, while rolling news that for over 10 hours has reported on nothing but this, as if it is the only event worth noting in the world, is thrown at us.

Aside: http://mediamatters.org/static/video/foxandfriends-200507070004.wmv - So glad we don't get fox
 
Number of people that I talked to today that knew that it happened. 2. And one of their responses was "That's what they get for talking bad about us attacking Iraq."

I feel sick. Mississippi sucks sometimes.
 
AndICried, you are right, the intent was to cause fear but it was by intentionally murdering civilians that they accomplished this goal was my point. I phrased it poorly, their intent was to cause fear and their means of accomplishing that was to intentionally kill innocent people. I was writing fast yesterday, when placing those bombs, the group was probably thinking "Let's cause fear and panic in the supporters of the Great Satan" but where the bombs were placed the bombs belies their regard for human life. I mean murdering innocents as a means to an end should in itself be abhorrent to any and all civilized people.
 
Well, you guys shoulda figured it out when I was protesting too much. Geeze, I thought this forum clever enough to figure it out without me saying it.
 
i was sleeping on a floor in a harlem apartment when this happened--my friend woke me up and was like "london just got bombed" and i was like "how many?" and she said "160" and i was like "did they get any landmarks?" and she said "no" and i went back to sleep.

i do think it was brilliant to blast a double-decker bus--such a symbol of london, and of the tourist industry.

i take issue with the idea that "the terrorists" are successfully influencing policy as evidenced by spain. sure, maybe there are some weepy spaniards who changed their minds because of the bombings, but i don't think it's fair or accurate to tie the election of a compassionate left-wing government and the ouster of rightwingers to "the terrorists won".