They joyfully kill anyone, regardless of religion, color or age. A terrible price to pay for just trying to show up for work.
Posted by The Old Man at July 7, 2005 07:13 AMTony Blair's speech was great. If you missed it check in out on cnn.com That is how a statesman should react to something like this. Much better than Bush after 9/11. Blair is going to Londen first thing.
I can't tell you how sad this attack has made me. I felt the same shock and disbelif as I did on 9/11. I can't say how sorry I am for all the people of the U.K. Hopefully one day we will know peace instead of war.
Posted by Jon at July 7, 2005 07:15 AMCan't be true - Bush and Cheney have told us the 'terrists are all in Iraq where we got 'em surrounded. Gotta be the IRA.
Posted by Nimby at July 7, 2005 07:15 AMThank God we have added layers and layers of executive administration positions instead of analysts and investigators here in America. I feel much safer in the knowledge that a political appointee tells me I'm safe; and that the Feds are concerned with the real problem, Americans who blog.
Posted by phidipides at July 7, 2005 07:26 AMIt's only a matter of time before this attack in London will be used to justify our involvement in Iraq.
Posted by the professor at July 7, 2005 07:31 AMI know today's events are shocking. It is worth remembering, though, that bombings of similar magnitude happen regularly in Iraq. The victims don't get as much press, because Iraqis don't look like us.
Posted by Matt Davis at July 7, 2005 07:44 AMWhat happened in London happened because of their loose life style and gay people. It will be an great opportunity for the religious right to witness to the British. Oh! sorry I guess that excuse can only be used by wing nuts on American soil.
Posted by Mr. KnowItAll at July 7, 2005 07:47 AMBut Matt remember this;
Your chances of being a victim of gun violence in Washington D.C. are still worse than in Iraq! I'm sure the same goes for London. So these bombings really are insignificant.
Oh yeah.
And the fact that we see the violence escalating and spreading to new areas is a sign of the terrorists desperation. Last throes and all etc..etc...
Posted by Joe Louis at July 7, 2005 07:51 AMi agree with matt
my heart does go out to all persons suffering loss in this heartwrenching tragedy that is terrorism and the innocent people killed and wounded..it's senselees and wrong.....but one begs to ask the question ..how many iraqi men women and children have been killed in a war that we chose to fight....i believe the people of great britain will ultimatly ask the same question....terrorism is more alive today then it ever was..because of bush and blair
Posted by dennis at July 7, 2005 07:57 AMI wanted to slap the newsreader on our local radio: "There's a tieup on I-5, but not due to a terror attack..haha." Stupid fuck. In the same report a witness said she saw a woman's legs, not the woman, in the street. Another witness said the building next to the exploded bus was splattered with blood. Hahaha.
The perky, but heartless chick at my office asked how I was doing today, and I said "depressed." She asked why, for fuck's sake, and when I asked whether she'd heard the news from London, she just laughed and asked if I'd heard about the accident on I-5.
Our local news spends 20 minutes on how the people on the street remember 9-11 for every 2 minutes of coverage of the bombings.
Fucking American exceptionalism, egocentrism. I love my country, most of the time; but sometimes I sure hate the people who live here.
BTW - I heard a report that Scotland Yard warned the Israeli gov't about a threat the day before these bombings. Anyone able to confirm?
Posted by iamcoyote at July 7, 2005 08:02 AMI read the a similar line in th AP article at 7am this morning - it's apparently been dropped out. If I remember, the Yard warned Israeli intellegnce hours before of a terror threat.
Posted by idiosynchronic at July 7, 2005 08:44 AMYahoo has an article about warning htat Israel received.
Posted by the professor at July 7, 2005 08:48 AMLinks for the coyote - one confrimation, one denial, one muddy.
Arutz Sheva
South Africa's Mail&Guardian
The Scotsman
Thanks, guys, I'll check them out. It seemed like a really curious twist in the midst of all this.
Posted by iamcoyote at July 7, 2005 09:20 AMDid our color coded terror alert go up today? I was watching CNN and didn't see anything about it. Here in Chicgao we have heightened security on the train lines.
Posted by ann at July 7, 2005 10:29 AMAnn, yes the color code went up today. At least on the subways. Purple, orange or pink or something. First time it has went since Junior was reelected.
Out west here where I live the only thing what went up was my temper, watching the London Death Toll go up along with the US Stock Market, probably in anticipation of all the new security contracts Haliburton will be getting.
Its outrageous and big business in country should be totally ashamed!
Posted by Hank at July 7, 2005 12:19 PMWhy were the Israeli warned about the London attacks? I heard it to this morning at C-span. (The raw story has the link)
here
JERUSALEM - British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.