[TomGallagher]

Dear GWB,

The events of the past few days are indelibly entrenched in our minds. The sight of planes crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the resulting fires and devastation. As we watched people running in the streets and the WTC imploded to the ground, our initial thoughts were for the victims. Many a family in the USA is missing a parent this evening because of cowards.

What is to happen now? Why has our country not responded? We understand that you want to be sure but while you wait, the terrorist training camps have emptied. The so-called “trainees” as well as the teachers are now in hiding amongst the so-called “innocents”. These are the same “innocents” we have all seen dancing in the streets, celebrating our nations worst nightmare. While you and your staff attempt to build support for the attack we all hope will come, terrorist leaders like Bin Laden have been laughing in our faces.

The United States is truly the strongest nation in the world today, yet while close to 20,000 of our citizens have died, our nation has done nothing. You have entered our homes via our TV's numerous times since this tragedy occurred and you have told us that this was an act of War, yet the world’s strongest fighting force remains inactive.

We ask you for justice! Justice for the 20,000 American “Innocents” who will not be home at the family dinner table tonight. It is fine for your spin-doctors to be on all of the TV networks saying that the USA is not 100% sure who is responsible, but is it not true that we do know for sure what countries support this kind of terrorism? Do we not know for sure all of the countries who harbor and train terrorists on a daily basis? Do we not know for sure those responsible for the embassy bombings or the USS Cole incident?

Since when does the United States of America need the permission of other nations to defend our citizens? The time is NOW, matter of fact it is past time, for us to react and send a definitive message to anyone who might consider ever trying something like this again!

GWB, your country needs leadership! Each one of us grieves in our own way, we all have our own support networks be they ministers, priests, friends, etc. What we all need now is a leader! Please fill our needs and do so NOW!!!!


[This message has been edited by TomGallagher (edited 09-13-2001).]