Que se oiga nuestra condena de esta masacre. Despreciamos a eta, despreciamos toda forma de violencia y de terrorismo. Solo queremos vivir en paz.
Que la paz prevalezca en la tierra.
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wisdom like that of GANDHI can never be repeated too much.
I was reading in the NY Times that the ruling government WANTS this to be an ETA attack because it will help them win the election tomorrow. If it’s Al Queda, and there is more evidence going in that direction, we in the U.S. have to worry. This may be step one in a master attack with Americans next.
Everybody watch yourselves!
La paz sea con vosotros, Madrid!
I was reading in the NY Times that the ruling government WANTS this to be an ETA attack because it will help them win the election tomorrow. If it’s Al Queda, and there is more evidence going in that direction, we in the U.S. have to worry. This may be step one in a master attack with Americans next.
Everybody watch yourselves!
La paz sea con vosotros, Madrid!
I was reading in the NY Times that the ruling government WANTS this to be an ETA attack because it will help them win the election tomorrow. If it’s Al Queda, and there is more evidence going in that direction, we in the U.S. have to worry. This may be step one in a master attack with Americans next.
Everybody watch yourselves!
La paz sea con vosotros, Madrid!
As an Australian who’s country suffered a similar attack, through which we lost hundreds of innocent lives, my thoughts and sympathies are with those that were affected by this heinous act.
Terrorism sux.
I work in the shadows of the slanted towers on the right-hand side of the cartton. Since Sept. 11th, we’ve ‘joked’ that if somebody wanted to crash a plane into something in Madrid, this would be the place. I/We never dreamed it would be something so mundane as a morning commuter train.
At this time of day, trains into Atocha are packed – standing room only. The platforms inside station are packed. The commuter rail terminal connects to long-distance train services and an extremely crowded subway line. If the trains had not been delayed, the tragedy would have been unimaginably worse.
I don’t know that I can conceive of what minds are able to contemplate these acts. After nine years in Madrid, I’ve still always basically considered myself a Seattlite who lived in Spain. Now, I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiment: “Todos somos Madrile
I am still greatly distressed over the events in Madrid. I am still greatly distressed over The Twin Towers, the attacks on the WTC in 1993, The USS Cole the bus bombings in Israel. I am distressed everytime I hear of a terror attack.
My signafigant other is a retired US Marine and I come from a long line of US Sailors. I want to see terror, no matter what kind snuffed out. We must free the world of the likes of the KKK, ETA, Al Qaeda, etc etc. We must all work together, politics asside so that our children won’t have to grow up and raise their children in fear.
God bless Madrid and all of the citizens of Spain, God Bless all of us. God Bless the allies and God Bless America
Wil,
Peace be to you and your household. We all want to live in peace. But terrorism cannot go unanswered; we cannot just “turn the other cheek.”
The Jewish philosophy is “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” Maybe that’s the only answer.
“On 9/11 the terrorists declared war on the United States and war is what they got.” (W)
They know that if they attack us again we are going to hit them in Iran, Syria, Lybia, etc.
Damn I’m pissed. Sorry.
I pray for peace in Spain, peace in the world.
Pax, Paz, Peace!
Freeman.
“an eye for an eye” is older than Judaism. It goes back to the code of Hammurapi. When and where have we been “turning the other cheek” anyway? We bombed the hell out of Afganistan, killed Canadians and Brits in ‘friendly fire’ and didn’t hardly apologize and blazed a trail for fighting a war against Iraq with no solid evidence of atrocities worthy of the world interfering with in a warlike manner. That’s NOT turning a cheek! That’s NOT giving a man your tunic when he asks only for your cloak. Turning the other cheek would be building the WTC in NYC bigger and better than before, hailing it as sign of our determination to not let the Man get us down. Why build two towers? why not rebuild all the towers that fell in the area, just as tall as the two biggest that fell? That’d show’em and that’d be turning a cheek. It’d be continuing our vulnerability in the face of threat and it’d be showing our boldness to keep going where we planned to in the beginning. Turning the other cheek would be reaching out to those countries with high numbers of terrorist groups and asking them what we can do to improve ties, not shaking a finger and threatening to attack them and rip up their governments.
Sarz,
“As an Australian who’s country suffered a similar attack, through which we lost hundreds of innocent lives, my thoughts and sympathies are with those that were affected by this heinous act.”
The Bali bombings (October 12, 2002) did not occur on Australian soil as your statement infers, nor did we lose hundreds of lives, the official count was 88 Australian dead out of a confirmed total of 202 lives lost. We certainly had the highest total of lives lost but we were by no means the only ones affected by this act, there were people of all nations who were left irrevocably damaged, be it physical, psychological or emotional. That is the intention of terrorists, there is no conspiricy, no rhyme or reason, just their desire to bring everyone else to their collective knees and hurt them anyway they can.
I appologise if I sound cold and clinical (I am anything and everything but cold and clinical, ask Kleenex), I just don’t like things to be exagerated for the sake of drama. Pain is pain anyway you look at it, but blowing it out of proportion helps no one, just makes it harder to pick yourself and those around you back up off the floor and find a solution (not a bandaid) to the problem.
This is just my opinion, I realise not everyone is going to agree with me and that’s fine. I grieve for all who have suffered from the actions and fallout (so to speak) of the terrorists (Not just Madrid, but all terrorist atrocities). One day there will be light at the end of the tunnel we are currently traveling through, this I believe.
Nicci,
Never said the attack happened on Australian soil.
Was not exaggerating for the sake of drama.
Never said Australia was the only country affected by the attack.
Did not know that of the 202 confirmed dead, ‘just’ 88 were Australian.
You psycho analyse my post which was less than 50 words in total, and I’m the one who’s over dramatising?
Just realised my post was addressed to the wrong person. Nicci, I apologise. I meant to address it to Brodye.
Sarz,
Your right, you didn’t say it happened on Australian soil, but the way it reads it infers it. As for the figures, I was giving you (and anyone else interested) the facts. As for phycho analysing your comment, I wasn’t, I was addressing the present situation as well as your comment. If you felt I was attacking you, I appologise. That wasn’t my intention, I merely wished to address the figures and the present situation.
I wrote something similar in my journal also. Indeed, we all are Mdrilenos now – and citizens of the world, all equally vulnerable to madmen and terror.
Peace.
Sarz,
No harm no foul. I know I said some pretty big stuff on this comment list, but I haven’t tried to criticise any country but my own, and that’s the U.S.A. 😉
I’m from Lleida, a little village 450 km far from Madrid. I’m very sad because of the victims but I’m really angry because of the way the government has treated them: here in Spain we didn’t know who was the responsible of the crime since international pressure made the presindent tell the truth. Now we are afraid of new attacks. One year ago we told we didn’t want the war but they didn’t listen to us. Now we are suffering its consequences.
Thanks everybody for the support and solidarity.