I will let you the reader make up your own mind if this is significant or not.  I personally think it is, that it is a part of that core difference between liberals and conservatives.

I will not say by any means this is conclusive, or that it is absolute.  Some on both sides of this issue routinely act as the exception to the rule.

But the sheer numbers support a trend whether we like it or not.   I have for your examination several from each camp.

• Pigs of War (by Cindy Sheehan)

Pigs of War come in both political colors of red and blue. We are all unfortunately very familiar with the red pigs. The pigs of war who manipulated, cherry-picked, stove-piped and manufactured intelligence to suggest to the world that Saddam had mushroom cloud producing WMD and something to do with the tragic events of 9-11 that occurred six years ago now.

• Six Years of 9/11 as a License to Kill

It evokes a tragedy that marks an epoch. From the outset, the warfare state has exploited “9/11,” a label at once too facile and too laden with historic weight — giving further power to the tacit political axiom that perception is reality.

The most repetitious lessons of 9/11 — received and propagated by the vast preponderance of U.S. news media — have to do with the terribly asymmetrical importance of grief and of moral responsibility. Our nation is so righteous that we are trained to ask for whom the bell tolls. Rendered as implicitly divisible, humanity is fractionated as seen through red-white-and-blue windows on the world.

Posing outside cycles of violence and victims who victimize, the dominant vision of Pax Americana has no more use now than it did six years ago for W.H. Auden’s observation: “Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.”

• JAMIESON: “Endless Iraq war adds to sorrow of 9/11″

On this, the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist strike, we tend to think of the more than 2,900 people killed in coordinated attacks on New York, the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked plane that crashed near Pittsburgh.

We need to be keepers of their memory.

But my thoughts also drift to people such as the mourning war widow, who now bears the weight of incalculable loss in a quiet home close to Fort Lewis. Her husband was killed in the misdirected conflict that our president sold to the public to avenge terrorism victims.

• Study: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Gain Ground

The idea that the Bush administration participated in  the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is not limited to fringe Web sites and conspiracy theorists, according to a poll commissioned by a Web site that promotes alternative explanations for the events of Sept. 11.

The poll, conducted by Zogby International for 911Truth.org and released last week, found that 31 percent of Americans do not accept the official explanation for Sept. 11 — that “19 Arab fundamentalists executed a surprise attack which caught U.S. intelligence and military forces off guard.”

• Prof: Bush the ‘Best Ally’ of Bin Laden, Ahmadinejad

President Bush is the “best ally” of Osama bin Laden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky was quoted as telling one of Japan’s largest newspapers on Tuesday.

The newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, published what it called an exclusive interview with Chomsky, to coincide with the sixth anniversary of al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on the United States.

In the interview, Chomsky argued that the Iraq war “significantly increased the threat of terror,” and he cited Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst and author of the book “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror,” as calling Bush bin Laden’s main ally.

Chomsky later added, “just as Bush is Osama Bin Laden’s best ally, he is also Ahmadinejad’s best ally.” Washington’s “threats” against Iran had the anticipated effect of making the Iranian government “more harsh and verbal,” he said.

• PICTURES: SAN FRANCISO PROTEST MARCH

Held on September 8, 2007 — just before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — San Francisco’s “9/11 Truth March” wended its way through the city’s Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park to the “Power to the Peaceful” festival in the park’s Speedway Meadow. The goal behind the 9/11 Truth March was to raise awareness that the events of September 11, 2001 were either a hoax, or were carried out by George Bush and Dick Cheney and their minions, or were a planned demolition by neocon warmongers to create an excuse for starting a war, or were a mass hallucination, or something along those lines. The “Power to the Peaceful” festival is a combination all-day music concert and political shindig that has become an annual event. Blending “progressive” music, radical rhetoric, and revolutionary politics, Power to the Peaceful attracts tens of thousands of revelers and activists.

This deserves a picture.

In contrast:

• COUNTERTERRORISMBLOG.ORG

Six years after the 9/11 attacks, the key strategic issue regarding the global war has not yet been addressed by American leadership and the AAmerican ppeople: a clear definition of the global enemy we are fighting and a clear definition of the ideology of the enemy. Extensive discussion has been held on terrorism, the nature of terrorism, tactical approaches to homeland security, tactics  of terrorism and counter terrorism, and specific military campaign tactics. Significant progress has been made on such issues, but it is important to recognize that the progress has been in tactical operational areas, and that overarching strategy issues still need to be addressed.

But by ignoring the major strategic issues of fighting Jihad and addressing political Islamism, there are numerous convenient fictions contrary to our national security interests  (e.g., denying Jihadist threats, misunderstanding Jihadist’s ideological basis, monofocus on tactical and military debates) — all of which ignore the uncomfortable, inconvenient truths and complexities about global Jihad and political Islamism. In effect, American policy and debate remains focused on tactical issues, without a clear agreement on the enemy, or the strategy to fight the enemy, in the world war.

• LGF

How much Have We Forgotten?

LGF reader George T. forwarded these haunting photographs of beams and girders from the World Trade Center, on exhibit at the  Liberty Science Museum in New Jersey.

In a sad reminder of how deeply America has succumbed to the plague of political correctness, to the point where we even shy away from offending our mortal enemies, the plaques in the exhibit make no mention of an attack. These were just “events.”

• PJM

Memorializing 9/11 is more vital than ever, as the emotion and sense of purpose that swept over this country in 2001 dissipate. But PJM’s David Rusin writes that remembering the events in sadness is not enough. We must also remain angry.

September 11 has taken its place alongside December 7 as a date that lives in infamy — and one that is barely contemplated during the other 364 days. But consider the contrast. More than six decades have elapsed since the raid on Pearl Harbor, and the challenges made clear on that fateful morning were resolved in another age, by another generation. Conversely, the Long War with radical Islam that began in earnest merely six years ago stands closer to its outset than its denouement. In World War II parlance, it is still early 1942, and there has not yet been a Midway or a Guadalcanal to signal the turning point.

With Iraq teetering in the balance, Iran flaunting its nuclear ambitions, Israel under siege, and Pakistan in turmoil, remembering 9/11 is more vital than ever. The traumatic images from that day — United Flight 175 slicing into the south tower, a cloud of debris rushing through the streets of Manhattan — provide striking testimony about the brutal character of Islamic extremism, the vulnerability of a free and open West, and the sober truth that fighting our enemies on foreign soil is preferable to fighting them here.

• CAPTAIN’S QUARTERS

 Bad News For The Truthers

One of the more enduring myths of the 9/11 truther movement involves the rapid collapse of the Twin Towers after being hit by the commercial jets six years ago today. The conspiracy theorists insist that a self-initiated collapse could not have occurred, and even if it did, it could not have progressed so rapidly. Their theory has government agents spending two weeks in the building, planting explosives without disturbing the offices in the building, and waiting for that special day when a couple of planes hitting the towers would give them an excuse to demolish them.

• RWN

We’re six years out from 9/11 and rather than try to reinvent the wheel, I thought I’d go back and post some of my favorite 9/11 related posts.

Comments From 9/11 — As They Happened

An Ode To America

Proving The 9/11 Conspiracists Wrong

Sept 11th Related Quotes, The First 10 Days

I Didn’t Forget The 9/11 Celebrations

• Sister Toldjah

As part of DC Roe’s Project 2,996 from last year, I wrote this post in honor and tribute to murdered 9-11 victim Peter Edward Mardikian, and wanted to repost it today, the 6 year anniversary of 9-11. The links in the posts were valid, workable links last year, and hopefully they are still good to use this year, too. This post will remain on the top of the page all day, while newer posts will appear below it. Also, please make sure to check out Michelle Malkin’s 9/11: Remembrance and resistance post as well as Don Surber’s link roundup of other 9-11 remembrances being posted today, both in honor of the victims of 9-11 as well as reaffirmations to remain ever vigilant, to stay strong, and to never, ever forget.

Fair is fair, here is a conservative picture:

My final analysis is that the conservative generally want to memorialize the loss of 6 years ago, and regain our determination to fight.  Conservatives want to keep clarity on who the enemy is and how essential the fight is.

The Liberals want to continue blame shifting, theorizing conspiracies and breaking our resolve in order to end the war, regardless of the consequences.  Liberals want to blame everyone except the terrorists, and want us to surrender.

Just my opinion. To me, the day should have been one to soberly pay tribute to those lost with no bullshit clouding the tribute.

Today should have just been to memorialize the people who died.  Period. 

There is plenty of time tomorrow to blame and argue.

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