The Meaning of 9/11

Graff, Gerald., Birkenstein, Cathy., Durst, Russel. They Say I Say and "The Decline and Fall of  Declinism." The Meaning of 9/11. Ed. Morris Berman. New York: Norton, 2009. Print

In this anthology by Morris Berman, a further truth is revealed about 9/11. Berman gave a deeper look into the reason why we started a war with Iraq. The U.S. had a military and we were willing to use it. Our war was againt Iraq with the help of Great Britain.

"If the U.S. were not preparing to attack Iraq, it would be preparing to attack another nation. The U.S. will go to war because it needs a country with which to go to war."

After the reading I became more aware of the 9/11 attack. The way I see it, the attack was more of a conspiracy than a terrorist attack. Our nation is a huge consumer of oil and areas like Saudia Arabia oil is abundant. Bush wanted to start a war with the weaker country so that we could gain either territory and/or the oil. Imagine how our country with fluorish with the black goo. We would be able to manufacture, sell, and have our nation prosper for all eternity! But at what price? According to a research team at Johns Hopkins there was a total of about 100,000 civilian deaths.(450 Berman) A lot of innocent people were killed "accidentally" in bombings. It was not fair for those people to die. My father fought in the military for twenty years and even fought in the war in Iraq. I asked for his opinion on the war and he told me "...we fought for the oil". Bush wanted to fight for the oil and make a lot of money for the States. After the attack of 9/11 Bush decided it was a good enough reason to go to war.