On the 6th anniversary of 9/11...

I can't believe it. It's the 6th anniversary of 9/11.

I still remember clearly what happened that morning, when I was in office, and then some colleague called out, that something happened in NYC. In march everyone into the big conference room where the big TV was. Most everyone hadn't the slightest clue what's happening. Everyone's laughing and chatting when we went in. And then we saw black smoke coming out of one of the towers of World Trade Center. There's so much talking going on, on top of the TV, that I didn't realize what's going on. The picture on the TV looked so cleared and gorgeous that it's movie-perfect. It's too Hollywood like - afterall, things always happen either in New York or LA, don't they.

We were chitchatting about general stuffs: how tall WTC was; who had worked there on which floor; etc. Nobody comprehended how grave the situation was. And then the towers collapsed. The only thing that came out of everyone was a lot of wow's. I just thought, "wow, that's bad."

It wasn't until the next day, when more videos came in, and there are views from the ground. There are videos showing people jumping from on high to escape (and die). There are videos of people running away from ground zero when clouds of dust flooded the street like special effects in Hollywood. It's still surreal, but it isn't until then when I realized how bad this was, and I couldn't stop my tears rolling down my face, even though I wasn't crying out loud.

Six years on, much is revealed and still more is not. There are good and bad things that come out of it.

The good: False illusion of safety, away from the middle east, is gone. People are more aware of the mortal dangers that we are in. I can't think of anything else that is good about 09/11.

The bad: We should know by now that we shouldn't have gone in Iraq on the pretext of 9/11 (I hope), as the Bush administration tried to sell it and still selling it. (Apparently there are still silly people who would regurgitate the same tidbits fed by Karl Rove on why and how 09/11 and Iraq are related. Shame on them.) And on how Bush Jr squanders away the chance to do a good job in Afghanistan, and instead, do a very bad job in there, in Iraq. Through it all, America completely lost its morale leadership of the world. Bush Jr should know that these will forever be his legacy. He knew it, and tries to salvage it. Well, Mr President, I'm sorry to tell you, but it's too late now. The uprising of the neo-cons in the Bush administration in hijacking the agenda, and the erosion of civil liberty on the pretext of fighting terrorism, are in most cases, BS.

The way that this administration is going, the way that it's antagonizing the whole world, it's doing a service to bin Laden in driving recruits his way. In terms of ugly, this is one of the worst things that Bush has delivered this country. I'm ashamed of him.