How 9/11 Should Be Remembered

tomdispatch.com — Eight years ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. The al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers did not defeat New Yorkers. The distortion, even obliteration, of what actually happened was a necessary precursor to launching the obscene response that culminated in a war on Iraq, a war we lost (even if some of us don't know that yet), and the loss of civil liberties and democratic principles that went with it. For this eighth anniversary of that terrible day, the first post-Bush-era anniversary, let's remember what actually happened.

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