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Ward Churchill Response Ward Churchill’s perspective on the September 11, attack in 2001 is very intriguing because he states that the United States had done the same damage in other countries specifying
Iraq mostly, therefore deserved what the terrorist had planned which was bomb the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. In his article he states that there was 500,000 iraqi children whom the
United States army supposedly murdered intentionally which he has no proof of, so it completely contradicts his point of us murdering innocent people. The article states that the American public basically ignored all the suffering that was going on in Iraq, as “...brownskinned fiveyear olds sat shivering in the dark, wide eyed in horror, whimpering as they expired in the most agonizing …show more content…
Churchill is spreading hate against the United States by twisting facts and pointing the finger at the US for making it possible for innocent people to die. He compares the victims killed in the WTC and Pentagon to one of the most crucial blood thirsty man ever known as Adolf Eichmann who murdered thousands of Jewish Nazi’s and was happy to say he “... if it has to be i would gladly jump into my grave in the knowledge 5 million enemies of the rike have already died like animals.” He goes about this by saying that “you do not have to be the one who turns on the gas in order for it to be lit as long as you 're making sure it is there,” which means you don 't have to kill in order to be a killer if you have an army to do the dirty work for you, you are just about guilty as them, which is understandable but definitely not fair to what the outcome was. I oppose to the statement he makes when saying the United States got what it deserved because no innocent person deserves to die and whether other people like the government, did any harm to the terrorist’s family, it is really between them and I don 't believe anyone else id to blame but whoever it was who pulled the trigger first because in all honesty I do not know if