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Old 09-11-2007, 09:43 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate View Post
I know I'm going to get called a d!ck for this, but why is this loss of 3,000 lives, tragic though it may be, more important than the 29,000 children that die each day from starvation/malnutrition. If a fraction of the money spent trying to avenge the deaths of these 3,000 were spent on building infrastructure and aide....

I'll shut up now.
I'm with you on this as well, as callous as it may sound. My heart goes out to the 3,000 9/11 victims, but it also goes out to the 100,000+ dead civilians in Iraq as well.

Hundreds, thousands of deaths occur every day for wrong reasons. 9/11 was just on our soil, which is the only thing that makes it different from the rest. But it doesn't make it any more important than the other war-related deaths that have occured because of those events on that day 6 years ago.
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