“My personal opinion is that we should go to Finland and all those arab countries and just blow them up”.
This is a quote from “9/11: 102 minutes that changed America” – I’m just halfway through watching it and could not actually believe that these words came out of someone who, a business man, looked fairly intelligent.
It’s a properly shocking video timeline that really goes someway into showing just how horrifying the events were for the people who were there – I tried to imagine it at the time, but I didn’t even come close. If you don’t like watching people jumping to certain death, then this really aint for you (I have to admit, even I closed my eyes in parts).
It’s always been a wonder how the buildings managed to stay standing for so long after being hit by planes, but equally, how did they suddenly just collapse? After seeing them burn for so long, and having seen the footage of them just before collapse – you can see tower one ‘glowing’ from the heat of the fires within, and Tower 2 had molten debris flowing from it – it’s just amazing that anyone escaped at all.
All I can say is thank god for democracy – George Bush was pretty bad as presidents go, but from hearing the above statement, I realise that it could have been a lot worse. Finland should probably be thankful that ol’ George Dubya has probably never heard of them…