9/11: The Day America Embraced a Metaphor of War

By Rep. Dennis Kucinich, The Nation. Posted September 11, 2008.

We should not only remember 9/11. We should remember how the
politicization of 9/11 locked us into a "war on terror" that has
wrought more terror.

Before the Congress adjourns, I will bring forth a new proposal for
the establishment of a National Commission on Truth and
Reconciliation, which will have the power to compel testimony and
gather official documents to reveal to the American people not only
the underlying deception which has divided us, but in that process of
truth seeking set our nation on a path of reconciliation.

We suffer in our remembrance of 9/11, because of the terrible loss of
innocent lives on that grim day. We also suffer because 9/11 was
seized as an opportunity to run a political agenda, which has set
America on a course of the destruction of another nation and the
destruction of our own Constitution. And we have become less secure as
a result of the warped practice of pursing peace through the exercise
of pre-emptive military strength.