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I love bandwagons.

I'm rather old. I moved to the states 3 years prior to the attack and had a job. I usually don't watch TV in the morning but my girlfriend called and told me to watch the TV.

It was unreal. I didn't feel compassion, didn't think about the people who were actually dying. I don't know if it was because I didn't speak English very well back then and was not attached with the US as much as I am now, or because it looked just too unearthly I couldn't relate myself with it.

What DID scare me though, is the bedlam after that. Everybody on TV was screaming about Pearl Harbor (with which I have a bit of a beef, in terms of the general American view) and President Bush started the war in Afghanistan. To this extent, I understood. But Iraq? Anybody could see that was soooooo made up. It was scary that NO TV station questioned WMD crap that was clearly a fraud to my eyes.

It made me think about how WW2 had to have started, and it was scary to see how even a respectable county like the US can lose its temper and act impetuously once provoked.