As an American, it’s incredibly humbling to see how much the people of Great Britain support the United States. I don’t wish 9/11 to happen to anyone else on earth but these were the days where the world truly felt united. Much love to our allies across the pond.
It wasn't the British people that 'supported' America blindly. It was the politicians, newspapers and establishment that supported you blindly. After the lies of Iraq and Syria, thankfully most people are realising that America, with the UK and Israel, are the biggest terrorists of the lot.
@@robertely686 stupidest fucking comment I’ve ever read. Glad to see that you’re too stupid to even recognize the london bombings as terrorist attacks.
@@mattwebb6056 i have never met a single American who had anything negative to say about Great Britain. I think most Americans really do view the British as cousins.
As a 19 year-old on 9/11/01 in Arizona, I wept as I watched the news live--just as the second tower was struck. As a 38 year-old, I weep as I watch this. Thank you for your kindness, people of the United Kingdom.
Travis, I was 19 as well on 9/11/01. I just moved to Tucson , AZ for college in July 2001 to begin my college career. I still live in Arizona and I’m 38 as well.
I lived in Tempe on 9/11 and worked at Sky Harbor Airport fueling planes for America West Airlines. My shift started at 0500 on 9/11. Saw the news when the first plane hit on our TV. One of the older guys that worked there said "we may want to stop fueling now, folks." We just kind of shrugged it off as we didn't know what exactly happened. Everyone was guessing. I went out and fueled a 737 and and Airbus 320. Halfway though the 737 a ramp manager drove around to everyone on the ramp and told us to leave the ramp immediately as a second plane hit the towers. We spent the next few hours walking through Terminal 4 which had now been evacuated. Only us w/ "All Areas" badges were allowed up there and it was a ghost town, you could hear a pin drop in a terminal so busy, normally at that time would be thousands and thousands of people getting ready to board flights. No one was allowed to come into the airport and we weren't allowed to leave. It was crazy times for sure.
We will always stand together. My grandfather fought the Nazis; he landed at Normandy. The UK and the US will always stand together, no matter who else may seek to destroy us. We will be friends forever, no matter who leads us.
I will never forget Prime Minister Tony Blair's rigid alliance and friendship with America in those awful days following 09/11/2001. Likewise, a few days following 09/11/2001, I was very moved, humbled, and thankful when I saw on the news that Queen Elizabeth broke tradition, and had the American National Anthem played at Buckingham Palace because the Queen wanted America to know that "they have friends in the world".
As much as I hate Blair as a politician, I think everyone can agree he, and many NATO members acted correctly by standing together and putting politics aside for a while.
@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 - Saddam Hussein broke the United Nations Treaty that ended the Gulf War of 1991. The "No Fly Zone" in Northern and Southern Iraq, which were implemented to save the Khurds (who Saddam ruthlessly murdered in cold blood), were broken by the Iraqi Military via Saddam's orders. The world is a better place without this bloodthirsty dictator. Were mistakes made with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? Of course. Is the world a better place without the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein? Absolutely, without a doubt. Tony Blair is a statesman, and a gentleman. Wake up!
Thomas C Is the world a better place with IS IS ? No, the world is not a better place. Iraq is now an Iranian puppet state. There were no WMDs in Iraq and they knew there were none. Trillions of dollars, 6,000 american lives (twice as many as 9/11) and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives were lost. We should have never gone into Iraq in 2003 it destabilized the middle east and made the world less safe. The sanctions worked, the inspections were working. Bush lied, people died
@@thowen1988 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for "economic warfare" Kuwait had waged through slant drilling into Iraq's oil supplies
I was a US soldier when all of this happened and was mightily impressed by the commitment and common cause displayed by the UK govt and the wonderful British people.
Screw you. Aside from the people at ground zero no one else showed more bravery than anyone else. Many of them were prepared to leave their homes and give up their lives after the attack
@@munkyheed the attack killed citizens of 58 different countries. It wasn't an attack against the US, it was an attack against the global civilized society as a whole. As such the coalition force of 51 countries invading Afghanistan was entirely justified. It was just later that it was completely bungled.
@@PlutozReal "it was an attack against the global civilized society as a whole", indeed it was, just not by whom you think, who exactly were the five guys in a van taking pictures of their cigarette ligher's flames "engulfing" the WTC who were then flown out pronto, fun tip, they weren't flown to Iraq or Afghanistan.
As an American watching this video more than 20 years later my heart sinks. And listening and watching British leaders in Parliament speak about their lost loved ones and the suffering of their friend and Ally even though it saddens me it serves as a reminder of our relationship UK and America shares I take it as a sense of pride and thankfulness are the British citizens and the British government. Now the country is perfect no we're always there for each other and may those tires never be broken❤❤❤
9/11 is never far away because of personal loss that day. I saw it as it happened, and knew. Hearing the stirring words of support from the House of Commons and British leaders and people brings me to tears. Thank you. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
20 years on and you still believe these muppets?! Do you still believe Assad was gassing his own people whist winning a war as well?! Talk about useful idiots.
As a career American Soldier, I stood side by side with Soldiers from the UK during Desert Storm, OIF, and OEF. They will always be our brothers in arm and our alliance will always be rock solid. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 💪🏼
This almost made me tear up, man I love our British brothers and sisters like nothing else. We stand together as one and we will always have Britain’s back at any cost ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸💙
As a New Yorker who saw this horror Live from my office window & having lost 2 friends & many work clients and colleagues, the reaction of England still makes me weep. Blair's allegiance to Bush (and I'm a staunch Democrat), and the Queen's playing of our national anthem at Buckingham Palace by the Coldstream Guards Band (and my husband is a retired Coldstream soldier), it reinforces our still strong allegiance with our countries. 21 years ago. It still seems like yesterday, and I still look up if I hear a plane overhead. God bless and protect us all.
It’s chilling to hear the leader of the opposition say that this was the worst terrorist attack on the British knowing that just four years later, 7/7 would happen.
as an american, i am honored by the support from our brothers and sisters across the ocean, and i hope that one day i will be able to repay the kindness. thank you
@@piperjj4486 The Nazis were hoping that the Britons would negotiate after being bombed. However, Hitler was planning on invading Britain if everything else failed. He was reluctant to destroy Britain because the British population is mainly "pure Aryan." Without us and our supplies, Hitler probably would have ordered the invasion of Britain, and your country would have been destroyed, even with the Soviets on the other side. After conquering Britain, Hitler could have been focused on the Soviet Union.
It was interesting to hear a member of the British Parliament bring up about how different the different parts of America are. From where he apparently studied in Indiana, it is a minimum of 550 miles to New York City. That's a little under the distance from London to Berlin. He is 100% right. Even within the same state, one side can feel radically different from the other. In my home state of Pennsylvania, it's four hours from where I live to Philidelphia. That's the same as driving from London to Liverpool. I used to drive that for work each week and being out there felt like I was in a different world. The terrain, the habits of people and their diversity. It was so different and yet I hadn't even left my own state. The United States is a massive country that's essentially equal in size to the entire continent of Europe and in just one country, we have many different beliefs and cultures and geography as Europe does. This is why many Americans don't travel aboard and don't feel the need to. There's just so much to experience in our own country that we just don't much point in going elsewhere As has also been stated, it's almost immoral to say it but as someone who was born in 1995 and all I can remember is the constant infighting in Congress, I wish I could experience the unity we had after September 11, 2001. Even 20 years later with my only memory being watching the attacks live in my grandmother's living room as a six year old, whenever I watch footage of the attacks now, I have to consciously stop my hands from balling into fists because I'm so infuriated. I know that I would've been like so many that were of age when the attacks happened. Before the attacks were even over, I'd have rushed to the nearest recruiting center and signed up to get whoever had done it and put them six feet under. What's now come to my attention is that the guy who proposed the 9/11 attacks to Bin Laden, a piece of trash named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is in US custody but thanks to our justice system, which is purposefully designed to be as helpful to the accused as possible in order that the government can't use the system against the people, the government is currently weighing a plea deal that would see the death penalty taken off the table. Only in America could you be arrested for planning the murder of nearly 3,000 people and then get to sit in prison for 20 years on the taxpayer's dime and then maybe avoid the fate you deserve. Almost anywhere else, this man would've been shot on sight. It gives me mixed emotions. On the one hand, it makes me happy to see that our justice system is working in that the government can't just kill whoever they want, whenever they want, why ever they want. On the other, we have all the information we could ever need to see that this man is 100% responsible for the crimes he's accused of and yet he's still not dead. Democracy is funny like that.
@@travismaguire1349 Try to not use emojis when you're trying to prove or make a point, its trashy and weakens your argument. Unless you're as myopic as you are a bad typer, I don't really know how you don't see US citizens complaining about the US constantly on the internet. We are far from perfect, now would I want to live anywhere else? No, I like my guns too much but I've been to Europe and Canada and its really nice there and I would say most US citizens understand this. If I were to suggest what your issue is, try to have a little tougher skin to the alleged "bullying" and understand that many of us American's are very patriotic, just like many of you British are, we are just really loud and patriotic, don't get too pissy about it. If and when the time comes that we need to help one another out, if you're going to remain this puerile, I'd ask you stay inside and not embarrass the rest of your country and let the adults work together. If you have a change of heart, I'd be more than willing to stand next to you and face whatever threatens the UK and US.
@Tyler Lopes because they removed a dictator that violated more than 70 principles of UN membership? Sure the WMD argument was stupid and wrong but Saddam lost his sovereignty according to the bylaws of the UN and international law but ok you keep on with those feelings.
"A Week ago, anyone suggesting that terrorists would kill thousands of innocent people in downtown New York would have been dismissed as alarmist. Yet it happened." That is absolutely bone chilling
Not so bone chilling if you realize their first attempt was in 1993. The attacks on 9/11/2001 should never have happened. There were enough red flags to indicate something was going to happen, but the information wasn't acted upon.
And with the current war situation yet more unthinkable things may soon become possible as soon as the enemy decides to put events in motion Already there is a campaign of suicide attacks in Pakistan, and they have a stony presence in Niger, which our own Allies in Nigeria intend to plunge into further chaos by unprovoked invasion, it is only a matter of time before the enemy squires the means to kill tens of thousands
He is detested by the majority of people in the UK, he wasn't much liked back then when we didn't know the truth we do now: history proves he's a war criminal, declaring war on Iraq based on knowable false pretences. And the war on terror was exactly the same: flimsy evidence to link Osama to the attack, and it created more terrorists than it killed. We still to this day don't know for sure who funded the attacks because the 911 commission didn't want to know, so they never looked into it. The Saudi's are the most likely culprits. But they own the oil we so desperately want. I repeat, tony Blair is a war criminal.
@@ferventheat no he's not. There are a group of people that admire Blair, there are a group that detest him, and there are a group that think he did some good, some bad. He handled Iraq awfully but over 400 politicians voted for that war. Others would've done what he did. I personally would've liked a deeper dive into the events preceding the war in Iraq to, if nothing else, learn the lessons from that for if we get into that situation again. I do not believe the inquiry was sufficient enough. Blair did some good. In Ireland, in domestic policy... education and healthcare was in a much stronger position (relative to the population) in 2007 than it is now. That is down to Blair's government. Where he failed was in Iraq and in other areas of his foreign policy which coincided greatly with the dissipation of his cabinet towards the back end of his tenure. In the "historic rankings of UK Prime Ministers" he's generally ranked by experts at around 3rd place (behind Attlee and Thatcher) which is a fair summation of his time as PM
@@Matthew-bu7fg I’ve no doubt that the person with such fervent hatred of Tony Blair is a right wing Tory and was probably not old enough to understand the events of 2001 and the Northern Ireland peace treaty. Thatcher was no better and in my mind, a worse war criminal than Blair . Anyone who witnessed 9/11 totally understood the retaliation, against any form of state harbouring those who would wish harm upon the innocent . That day will always live with me and I will never forget the brave actions of so many, in standing up to these barbarous swine’s, who murdered not only innocent people, but our whole way of life.
fun fact: SAS and SBS regulary train with DEVGRU and Delta Force Most of their operations nowdayas are joint operations If you are a British citizen with SOF experience you can tranistion and enlist over to Team Six or Delta, same thing if you are American, if they are living in UK they can enlist in SAS or SBS if they had SOF experience in the past.
We Americans love our British family...the two nations share a common heritage and ancestry. I Prefer to refer to the British people as family...not merely friends or allies. It goes far deeper than that. I like to think of Great Britain as our big brother and we are the loud-mouthed but well intended little brother.
You could say that 20, maybe 10 years ago but if you look at the makeup of parliament now most of them hate America. Only a very select few that defend our alliance.
Mr Spoon take your antisemitism somewhere else please. American foreign policy is evil due to the corporate greed, corruption and mostly right wing racist Christians who have neoconservative foreign policy beliefs. Take ur conspiracy theories and antisemitism somewhere else. Maybe find a crowd as stupid as you. Pathetic troll
Mr Spoon Assuming your theory is true (it is not, but let’s believe it for the sake of argument) then such organization had existed before our time and people such as yourself do nothing but blame Jewish nationalism. Those of us that have peered into the abyss see the situation for what it is. A global economic system born out of either a necessity for stability or out of simple consolidation. Your Zionist theories do not work because a) you understand not what Zionism means and b) is predicated upon a longstanding myth that Jews themselves are out to rule the world. Neither is true.
As an American, I always admired Tony Blair. He was also PM when Princess Diana died and he handled that situation very well. He was a true leader, one of those naturally born to lead.
Your perspective as an American is clearly limited. Here in the UK he is almost universally despised for being a shameless snake who pushed us into the Iraq war by lying to Parliament and the public.
After all these years that day still stands out. Terrible memories. At the same time I can remember moments like this. People coming together. 🇺🇸🇬🇧. May we never see another 9-11
So glad that we have such a close relationship with Great Britain. We are living in the era of one of the greatest alliances and freest cultures the world has ever known.
I was living in Britain when Tony Blair first became Prime Minister, and remember vividly how impressed I was with the commitment he had to the special relationship between Britain and the US. I've always seen it as unfortunate, being from the US, that the ensuing course of action and subsequent years have created if not a rift then a benign ambivalence between two great cultures which ought to be joint to the utmost. And as I see my own country flounder in its isolationism, it is saddening to see Britain endure its own version of the same misdirection in the form of Brexit. May rational humanists one day control the world under constant check of each other.
Ridiculous comment. You do realise our relationship with the United States was directly and constantly undermined by the federal nation they call the European Union, don't you?
I remember sitting here in Norway feeling quite confident that the US would rightfully display vulnerability and victimhood to demonstrate to the populations of Islamic countries that bin laden killed innocent people. Then do aid, diplomacy, outreach with pacifism and collaboration, while going after Bin Laden with special forces. Imagine my surprise when the response was the invasion of a nation instead. I wasn't so naive I thought they would act kindly but it seemed the obvious choice both for justice and propaganda yet...
I was in second grade in a small town eighty or so miles west of Chicago. I was in Mr. Andersons class and we were talking about something to do with addition; and abruptly an announcement came on the intercom commanding all teachers to bring their students to the gymnasium. The gymnasium was also our lunch room and had tables built into the walls. They couldn't put the tables down though to save room so all the kids could sit. The teachers all gathered at the front of the gym and watched an old TV with a wooden frame. The TV was faced away from the kids, but I can't forget one of the teachers reaction when I assume a replay of a tower being hit was played. She screamed "my cousin is in there!" And fell to the floor. That's when all of us kids knew something was WAY off. A couple kindergarten kids started crying actually. My parents were both at work so my aunt came to pick me up and she took me to the Ferrell gas my parents worked at. Her boss was crying, and he was a stern and tempered old man. Come to find out he lost a friend in the pentagon. I mourn for all those who lost their lives that cold day.
When NATO proved itself, and the North Atlantic Treaty was finally ratified with the blood of its sons and daughters. Over 1,000 NATO personal (the majority British) died in defense of the United States in Afghanistan, and this American will never forget.....
@@NothingHumanisAlientoMe So Bin Laden embarked on mass murder for "the global war machine"?... I'm leaving Iraq out of it.... A madman given safe Harbor by extremists murdered thousands.... And the world reacted.... Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty explains the rest.
I was in grade 4 at the time. A blank canvas. To this day, I look back at how it's shaped how I view the world and war. My life would certainly have been different if I hadn't seen this happen with my own eyes.
We will always forever be in debt by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British people, they showed us what true friendship and brotherhood meant by coming to the side of America as she lay wounded. Thank you!
Whoever finished speaking right at 2:30:00, I have to admire a man who speaks frankly. A lot of this was really nice and I’m not diminishing it at all-but sort of predictable stuff from politicians after a heinous attack on an ally-but this guy coming out straight up saying the airlines have potentially committed *criminal* negligence was a real wake-up moment. You can see some of the others getting a little uncomfortable.
They are nervous because they realize that it could happen there too. That they are not immune from the acts of destruction and terror that plague the rest of the world. I imagine it was a sobering moment for many of them.
If people looked uncomfortable its because its a bit of an eye rolling speech, trying to blame Airlines for not stopping a massive well-funded, well-planned plot to hijack multiple planes. No one would have even conceived of something like that before 9/11. If you really wanted to start playing the blame game so soon after the attack then the blame clearly falls on the intelligence community, they didnt even see it coming.
It's hard to imagine that it has been 21 years this year. And like back then, here in 2022 we also stand before unprecedented challenges -- at least as far as anybody presently living can remember.
I’m American but was living in the UK on 9/11 - at the exact moment the attacks started, I was giving a tour to a couple of potential investors in my tiny and struggling startup company. They signed the deal that day, but had they known how it would crater the financial community I’m sure they would have walked away. They expressed shock for the fate of the people on the planes - I told them that the WTCs held upwards of 90,000 people on a work day so it might turn out to be even more horrific.
Personal as that is, our American and Australian friends are welcome to England as and when they want to come. Salt of the earth (saying) is how to describe our American friends! Having spoken to around 40 Americans here in England, can say with love Americans are our blood brothers and sisters!
@@thikifo395 thanks my friend. Your comment works all around. We can have our independent, yet we come as one! Friend is friend, regarding of country we are from.
hadn't heard this before, but it shows great passion. It is quite indicative of how they feel, and I am in agreement as so many others. England and the UK is one of our greatest friends, England is like our big brother. Sure we fought, we had our arguments, but we came together as family should. It was an isolationist ideal that prevented us from joining sooner in each early war, but now it seems we war to easily. But in due course we all learn and grow as people, as communities and as countries. And it is our actions that should be remembered and not some pretty words. And they followed through, just as adamantly as their words suggested, may we always be friends. After all, its just a pond that separates us.
@Mr Spoon Look, I would never vote Labour, especially under Blair, but I firmly believe that those who can’t see past heir own core beliefs in the name of genuinely good politics or humanity are not ones for valid debate, no offence meant, I’m just appreciating his good speech 😂
Y’all Brits kick ass. That was moving, as someone who watched helplessly on TV as a teenager who couldn’t get in touch with his older brother in NYC because the phone lines were down. Y’all so well spoken, too. No wonder we’re bff’s. Y’all are like the “cool friend” lol.
I always say that September 11 can happen to anyone. Like the bombing in Paris. I like that not only did they acknowledge the loss of life in the people in the towers, but also acknowledged the emergency services that risked, and lost their lives.
As an American that studied in the UK… Our countries’ will always be very close in relations, and I view our people as ‘cousins.’ I never met a bad person in the UK, and some of the best memories in my life are meeting locals in pubs and having a nice pint over conversation.
No matter how many years later I will always remember Karlie Rogers one of the 67 Britons we lost that day. She was 26 years old and I do not know if I knew her from school but that is irrelevant she had the rest of her life ahead of her and no amount of time will ever let me forget her or any of the innocent lives lost that day.
I was on active duty at Ft. Campbell, KY...off-post at a friends house and made it to the TV right as the second plane hit..I made it back just minutes before the lock-down. We went on full alert and waited for orders. We didn't have to wait long
I was only in elementary school in New York City when the Twin Towers were hit. I remember I was living in Brooklyn back then, in a neighborhood where it would take about an hour or so to reach the Financial Sector downtown. At the time, I didn't understand what was going on necessarily, I just knew I had a day off school as it was starting up. However, my step-father at the time was working in CNN's main headquarters, a building directly across from the World Trade Center, where the day previously, my mother and him were enjoying the view of the towers from the higher floors of the CNN building. That day, however, lay steeped in the air of uncertainty, as the whole day we hadn't received any word from him and none of our family members who lived in New York had heard anything. Eventually, late in the evening, he shows back up, covered head to toe in dirt, soot and dust. Apparently, he had been late for his eight o' clock shift in the editing room but he was still in the borough of Manhattan when the events took place. A fluke, a random brushstroke of fate that would have otherwise tethered me and my family inexorably to the senseless deaths that took place on that day. Ten years later, I'd end up moving to Manhattan with my family, in the Lower East side, a neighborhood almost directly adjoining the Financial Sector. Our building at that time was significantly taller than the ones around us, giving us a direct view of Downtown New York City from almost every window we were facing. It's around this time in the early portions of the 2010s that the reconstruction efforts for what we colloquially refer to as Freedom Tower began peeking its head out from the downtown skyline. Every day, I would wake up, come home from school, and live seeing that building get bigger and bigger, slowly but surely. Shortly before I moved out, the building was just about done, soaring over everything else around it. In an odd way, that newer building and that memory made me think of what's being demonstrated in this video. Resilience, tenacity, strength and the spirit of togetherness that truly shines on the moments when horrible and previously unimagineable darkness has transpired. New Yorkers tend to have a somewhat more familiar and almost accepted nature when it comes to the events of 9/11 while paradoxically holding it closer to our hearts than most others would. The worry, condolences and solemn solidarity that potentially billions around the world may have felt on that day towards an area in Manhattan roughly measuring 1 square kilometer is not only incredibly touching, but undeniably telling of the collective strength of the human spirit. Near and far, native or foreign, young or old, it's moments like these which make us stop and remember that we can, have, and will come together when it matters the most. The unbreakable will of what binds us together as people will always ensure that come what may, we will always rebuild. Together.
Finn the British and American history books love glorifying themselves but u have to admit, WW2 would have been a lot different if the Americans didn’t intervene on the allies side
i was alive for the event although i was only a 1 year old i grew up with the intense influence of the event (the aftershock) I feel its my duty as an American to help those in need i will and have been one to go in to save people i would give my life for the greater good for people to go about their day freely... regardless of race... regardless of gender... regardless of age... regardless of their religion... i had a rough life when i was young... seen the pain people can inflict on others... it broke me to the brink of suicide... but i stopped and thought about those in my life no matter how distant would be sad to have me go... from that day on i vowed to myself to never to allow people to feel the kind of pain i did when i grew up... if the call comes for volunteer work for the military if a large conflict happens i would gladly give my life for those around me... not for the want to die.. but the want to make sure no one goes through the grief and pain that a conflict can bring
As an American I truly appreciated the stirring and wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. While I may have disagreed with the PM on many issues (I would be a Tory if I were British) this American embraced the words of Tony Blair as we reminded of the special and enduring friendship of the USA and our best friends and allies, the UK.
Even today, almost 23 years since 9/11, I am in tears listening to the UK’s wonderful Parliament standing with us after that disaster. We love you, England! 🏴
I'm from Jersey City New Jersey where the NY skyline is like if you were in a place where mountains are your view when you look out the window. My Day began like any other as a soldier station at Fort Texas. Wake at 0445 as I lived off base made my bed prepared my coffee took a shower shaved got dress in PT gear. Head out the door 0530 go do PT. Got back home after PT about 0730 took a shower got dress in BDU's I called my mother as she was living in downtown Jersey City. She was already looking at TV news it was about 0830. The tone in her voice was heart wrenching as she was living within the nightmare. I asked what is going on as I didn't have the TV on the fear in her voice left me with no choice but to turn on the TV. By This time the second plane hit and I knew life had changed. I started getting calls to report with my ready gear. My words to my mother was "mom I don't know what is going on but I love you and please get out of there and go to my bothers. I got to go don't worry about me I love you!" Hung up and left to a change world. Where we were able to get on base we were now stopped at every point. what took 5 mins now took an hour.
I was only a young kid near Chicago when 9/11 happened and I just remember how everything around me basically felt very different. It’s interesting to see a similar reaction around the world If I was British I’d probably be a Liberal Democrat, but Tony Blair’s speech here is fantastic and spot on (it’s just a shame he later fell for the Iraq War)
"to inflict such terror on the world, to take the lives of so many innocent and defenseless men, women and children can never, ever be justified" he says, to later support the killing of 100 000 innocent and defenseless civilians
@@jomama3465 The international intervention in Kosovo and Bosnia was because of Serb ambition for Greater Serbia and the assimilation of it's cultural neighbours - draw parallels with the 30s as necessary. Aside from Iraq, I'm not sure what blunders you're on about in which "100,000s died", because the War in Afghanistan was NATO led and UN sanctioned. The War on Terror is arguably the most important and necessary war fought since WW2
@@user-op8fg3ny3j That's his opinion. I actually his actions in removing troops from the middle east has been far more destabilising over all than the war in Iraq ever was. Afghanistan was fought to end the taliban harbouring Al Qaeda and stabilise Afghanistan. Arguably the latter hasn't materialized, yet they're hammering out a peace accord. But the former has been widely successful - Al Qaeda is nothing force; and nothing like it was in 2001. As for Srebrenica, the reasons your using it are lost on me completely. I haven't refused to discuss anything, and no amount of you talking to me like a dick will change that. If there was no intervention in the Yugoslav Wars by NATO I cam assure you, Srebrenica would have been a sideshow compared to what could have happened. If you're critical at a western policy of being over zealous in it's interventions that's fine. Because you're right. The exit strategies for the likes of Afghan and Libya were cobbled together, and practically non-existent for Iraq. Which is why you see less intervention of that sort these days. But don't confuse that with not needing to intervene. Iraq notwithstanding, the War on Terror needed to happen, The Balkans War needed to happen.
LCI Gamer the only thing he is competent at is going to war under a false pretence. There is a reason most people despise him and call him a war criminal. He us up there with Clinton
Probably down to the fact he was a disgraced speaker of the house. He was the first speaker in 300 years to be forced out of office over his actions over the MPs expenses scandal of 2009.
SoloKingxRobert No he’s not Tony Blair was a terrible Prim Minister and did many objectionable things however Iraq is not one of them Saddam Husain was a murderous brutal Dictator killing him was a great thing for the world
He deserves no respect, he dragged the UK into the illegal invasion of Iraq which killed over a million people, war crimes and crimes against humanity were also commited, he doesnt deserve any respect he's just a criminal that wasn't tried for war crimes yet.
@@alcarbo8613 killing Saddam destabilized Iraq and caused deaths of countless people, he was a terrible human but in the end his death did more harm than good, and the invasion was also illegal so he was a war criminal.
That 2011 at the start threw me off, I thought this was for the 10 year anniversary, couldn't understand why Blair was talking. I now realise it was a typo.
That’s ridiculous. You’re getting fooled by the accent. Both countries have amazing orators. I’d take MLK’s I have a dream speech over any speech to come out of Britain in 100 years, including Churchill’s we fought them on the beaches speech.
I had just turned 14 and watched the second plane go into the tower while I was at school. I had lost my father suddenly in January of that year. I froze. I knew in that moment many were feeling fear, anger, shock and grief on a massive scale. Everything about the world in my view had changed that year. This year I am 35 and the war within humanity is so great that we can only see joy, peace, and innocence through the eyes of today's children and with Jesus Christ. There is a common enemy and it has tentacles all around this planet. Our Father, thou art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.
We started out as enemies. We matured into a lasting peace. As an American I am proud to call you brother.
That has always amazed me how our best friend in the world is the UK.
FiringallCylinders y
Cringeeee
In it til the end my brother across the Atlantic
Cute but the UKs respect for America has gone down dramatically recently
As an American, it’s incredibly humbling to see how much the people of Great Britain support the United States. I don’t wish 9/11 to happen to anyone else on earth but these were the days where the world truly felt united. Much love to our allies across the pond.
of course. We may not agree on everything and even make fun at one another. But when it comes down to it, we will always support one another.
It wasn't the British people that 'supported' America blindly. It was the politicians, newspapers and establishment that supported you blindly.
After the lies of Iraq and Syria, thankfully most people are realising that America, with the UK and Israel, are the biggest terrorists of the lot.
@@robertely686 stupidest fucking comment I’ve ever read. Glad to see that you’re too stupid to even recognize the london bombings as terrorist attacks.
Would like to know if the feeling is mutual and if the people of America support Great Britain the same way
@@mattwebb6056 i have never met a single American who had anything negative to say about Great Britain. I think most Americans really do view the British as cousins.
As a 19 year-old on 9/11/01 in Arizona, I wept as I watched the news live--just as the second tower was struck. As a 38 year-old, I weep as I watch this. Thank you for your kindness, people of the United Kingdom.
I live in Massachusetts and u couldn't see the smoke but I swear u could smell the smoke all the way over here. I'm only 2 hour drive from the city
Scott you could barrly smell it in midtown let alone massachusetts
Travis, I was 19 as well on 9/11/01. I just moved to Tucson
, AZ for college in July 2001 to begin my college career. I still live in Arizona and I’m 38 as well.
I lived in Tempe on 9/11 and worked at Sky Harbor Airport fueling planes for America West Airlines. My shift started at 0500 on 9/11. Saw the news when the first plane hit on our TV. One of the older guys that worked there said "we may want to stop fueling now, folks." We just kind of shrugged it off as we didn't know what exactly happened. Everyone was guessing. I went out and fueled a 737 and and Airbus 320. Halfway though the 737 a ramp manager drove around to everyone on the ramp and told us to leave the ramp immediately as a second plane hit the towers. We spent the next few hours walking through Terminal 4 which had now been evacuated. Only us w/ "All Areas" badges were allowed up there and it was a ghost town, you could hear a pin drop in a terminal so busy, normally at that time would be thousands and thousands of people getting ready to board flights. No one was allowed to come into the airport and we weren't allowed to leave. It was crazy times for sure.
Your the same age as britney spears
We will always stand together. My grandfather fought the Nazis; he landed at Normandy. The UK and the US will always stand together, no matter who else may seek to destroy us. We will be friends forever, no matter who leads us.
Black Fyre1 idiot
@@mr.communist3906 Comedic
@Black Fyre1 nazis are worse, ever heard of the holocaust?
Communists killed way more than the Nazis
ster plaz stfu dumb ass
I will never forget Prime Minister Tony Blair's rigid alliance and friendship with America in those awful days following 09/11/2001. Likewise, a few days following 09/11/2001, I was very moved, humbled, and thankful when I saw on the news that Queen Elizabeth broke tradition, and had the American National Anthem played at Buckingham Palace because the Queen wanted America to know that "they have friends in the world".
As much as I hate Blair as a politician, I think everyone can agree he, and many NATO members acted correctly by standing together and putting politics aside for a while.
Too bad Blair went with war criminal Bush in Iraq in 2003 and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people
@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 - Saddam Hussein broke the United Nations Treaty that ended the Gulf War of 1991. The "No Fly Zone" in Northern and Southern Iraq, which were implemented to save the Khurds (who Saddam ruthlessly murdered in cold blood), were broken by the Iraqi Military via Saddam's orders. The world is a better place without this bloodthirsty dictator. Were mistakes made with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein? Of course. Is the world a better place without the murderous dictator Saddam Hussein? Absolutely, without a doubt. Tony Blair is a statesman, and a gentleman. Wake up!
Thomas C Is the world a better place with
IS IS ? No, the world is not a better place. Iraq is now an Iranian puppet state. There were no WMDs in Iraq and they knew there were none. Trillions of dollars, 6,000 american lives (twice as many as 9/11) and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives were lost. We should have never gone into Iraq in 2003 it destabilized the middle east and made the world less safe. The sanctions worked, the inspections were working. Bush lied, people died
@@thowen1988 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's primary justifications included a charge that Kuwaiti territory was in fact an Iraqi province, and that annexation was retaliation for "economic warfare" Kuwait had waged through slant drilling into Iraq's oil supplies
I was a US soldier when all of this happened and was mightily impressed by the commitment and common cause displayed by the UK govt and the wonderful British people.
Blair supporters, ew
@Ricky Smith Iraq invaded Kuwait so Iraq deserved it
Screw you. Aside from the people at ground zero no one else showed more bravery than anyone else. Many of them were prepared to leave their homes and give up their lives after the attack
I was a ventriloquist dummy from Guantanamo Bay pinata store 🏪🤡🥳
Mate, you've no idea how much we love you!
As an American, this is incredibly touching to see. The US and the UK will always be friends and allies, sending love from across the pond 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
In terms of nationals killed, 9/11 is also our worst terrorist attack too. RIP to all who lost their lives.
@@munkyheed the attack killed citizens of 58 different countries. It wasn't an attack against the US, it was an attack against the global civilized society as a whole. As such the coalition force of 51 countries invading Afghanistan was entirely justified.
It was just later that it was completely bungled.
@@PlutozReal "it was an attack against the global civilized society as a whole", indeed it was, just not by whom you think, who exactly were the five guys in a van taking pictures of their cigarette ligher's flames "engulfing" the WTC who were then flown out pronto, fun tip, they weren't flown to Iraq or Afghanistan.
UA-cam’s recommendations are wild, but extraordinarily informative and intriguing, thank you to our brothers across the Atlantic. Forever grateful
Anaconda Gaming TV we literally created Americans. If anyone’s the son, it’s the US.
Anaconda Gaming TV oh. Ok
As an American watching this video more than 20 years later my heart sinks. And listening and watching British leaders in Parliament speak about their lost loved ones and the suffering of their friend and Ally even though it saddens me it serves as a reminder of our relationship UK and America shares I take it as a sense of pride and thankfulness are the British citizens and the British government. Now the country is perfect no we're always there for each other and may those tires never be broken❤❤❤
God bless America, love from London. Brothers in Arms ❤️🇬🇧
9/11 is never far away because of personal loss that day. I saw it as it happened, and knew. Hearing the stirring words of support from the House of Commons and British leaders and people brings me to tears. Thank you. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Still watching this on September 14th 2020!
2 days later but same. Great response from the Brits
Sept 23, 2020 here
March 21 2021
20 years on and you still believe these muppets?!
Do you still believe Assad was gassing his own people whist winning a war as well?!
Talk about useful idiots.
As a career American Soldier, I stood side by side with Soldiers from the UK during Desert Storm, OIF, and OEF. They will always be our brothers in arm and our alliance will always be rock solid. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 💪🏼
How many innocent people did u k!l1 and r@p£
@@sharym7 As many as they wanted Sharym :)
I council DC but I’m just a citizen but I salute you brother!
OIF was the most useless war in history
This almost made me tear up, man I love our British brothers and sisters like nothing else. We stand together as one and we will always have Britain’s back at any cost ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸💙
I'm British. Thank you, man.
Kill kill kill
And we will do the same to our American cousins across the pond! God bless the United States of America and the United Kingdom! 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
As a New Yorker who saw this horror Live from my office window & having lost 2 friends & many work clients and colleagues, the reaction of England still makes me weep. Blair's allegiance to Bush (and I'm a staunch Democrat), and the Queen's playing of our national anthem at Buckingham Palace by the Coldstream Guards Band (and my husband is a retired Coldstream soldier), it reinforces our still strong allegiance with our countries. 21 years ago. It still seems like yesterday, and I still look up if I hear a plane overhead. God bless and protect us all.
LMMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 They were in it for themselves as per usual 🤡
@@TheKonga8820 comments on this video?? We get it
@@titanic55 I saw a frog jumping on the bus 🚌🥳🥳🤭🐸
I will never forget this... ua-cam.com/video/xwrX-LN9-L0/v-deo.html
@@TheKonga88shut up you asshole. Show some respect.
I’m thankful for the special relationship we have with the British people. I thank them for helping us get through those very dark days.
Agreed.
fools
It’s chilling to hear the leader of the opposition say that this was the worst terrorist attack on the British knowing that just four years later, 7/7 would happen.
What’s 7/7?
Mr. E 2005 London Bombing (Islamic Suicide Bombers killing 56 people, injuring 784)
@Frankie O people still died.
Frankie O I wasn’t saying that 7/7 was worse than 9/11. Also more people died on 7/7 than in the Manchester Bombing-both of them.
@Frankie O Pretty disgusting reaction there, pal.
as an american, i am honored by the support from our brothers and sisters across the ocean, and i hope that one day i will be able to repay the kindness. thank you
@@deusvult8251 go back to your basement with your tinfoil hat and stfu
@@deusvult8251 proof?
@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodcl4824 bot?
These comments from my cousin's in the US warm my heart. We will always stand together friends.
Yes.
Thank you brothers...Allies forever!
allies forever ;) from US
@@CFaye-dp7nm The Saudis are not our allies.
@Anglus Patria Without us, you'd be speaking German.
@@oofoof12814 You wish, learn some history and you'll find how unlikely an Invasion of Britain was.
@@piperjj4486 The Nazis were hoping that the Britons would negotiate after being bombed. However, Hitler was planning on invading Britain if everything else failed. He was reluctant to destroy Britain because the British population is mainly "pure Aryan." Without us and our supplies, Hitler probably would have ordered the invasion of Britain, and your country would have been destroyed, even with the Soviets on the other side. After conquering Britain, Hitler could have been focused on the Soviet Union.
We will forever be grateful to our friends across the pond. Thank you for playing our national anthem as well. Allies forever.
It was interesting to hear a member of the British Parliament bring up about how different the different parts of America are. From where he apparently studied in Indiana, it is a minimum of 550 miles to New York City. That's a little under the distance from London to Berlin. He is 100% right. Even within the same state, one side can feel radically different from the other. In my home state of Pennsylvania, it's four hours from where I live to Philidelphia. That's the same as driving from London to Liverpool. I used to drive that for work each week and being out there felt like I was in a different world. The terrain, the habits of people and their diversity. It was so different and yet I hadn't even left my own state.
The United States is a massive country that's essentially equal in size to the entire continent of Europe and in just one country, we have many different beliefs and cultures and geography as Europe does. This is why many Americans don't travel aboard and don't feel the need to. There's just so much to experience in our own country that we just don't much point in going elsewhere
As has also been stated, it's almost immoral to say it but as someone who was born in 1995 and all I can remember is the constant infighting in Congress, I wish I could experience the unity we had after September 11, 2001. Even 20 years later with my only memory being watching the attacks live in my grandmother's living room as a six year old, whenever I watch footage of the attacks now, I have to consciously stop my hands from balling into fists because I'm so infuriated. I know that I would've been like so many that were of age when the attacks happened. Before the attacks were even over, I'd have rushed to the nearest recruiting center and signed up to get whoever had done it and put them six feet under.
What's now come to my attention is that the guy who proposed the 9/11 attacks to Bin Laden, a piece of trash named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is in US custody but thanks to our justice system, which is purposefully designed to be as helpful to the accused as possible in order that the government can't use the system against the people, the government is currently weighing a plea deal that would see the death penalty taken off the table. Only in America could you be arrested for planning the murder of nearly 3,000 people and then get to sit in prison for 20 years on the taxpayer's dime and then maybe avoid the fate you deserve. Almost anywhere else, this man would've been shot on sight. It gives me mixed emotions. On the one hand, it makes me happy to see that our justice system is working in that the government can't just kill whoever they want, whenever they want, why ever they want. On the other, we have all the information we could ever need to see that this man is 100% responsible for the crimes he's accused of and yet he's still not dead. Democracy is funny like that.
My fathers father fought in the British Army and my Mothers father fought in the US Army during WW2
God bless both countries!!!!
Allies stand together. I learned that from history. I was shown that by Britain.
God Save the King
God Bless Britain
God Bless The USA
God bless the TRUTH seekers , there are NONE in these discussions and
Exchanges. Sheep to the slaughter. All that glitters is not gold.!
May the USA and the UK stand with each other until the end of days. Many thanks and much love from the USA
@@travismaguire1349 seems like it's just you who won't and we don't want you specifically so you can stay home
@@travismaguire1349 Try to not use emojis when you're trying to prove or make a point, its trashy and weakens your argument. Unless you're as myopic as you are a bad typer, I don't really know how you don't see US citizens complaining about the US constantly on the internet. We are far from perfect, now would I want to live anywhere else? No, I like my guns too much but I've been to Europe and Canada and its really nice there and I would say most US citizens understand this. If I were to suggest what your issue is, try to have a little tougher skin to the alleged "bullying" and understand that many of us American's are very patriotic, just like many of you British are, we are just really loud and patriotic, don't get too pissy about it. If and when the time comes that we need to help one another out, if you're going to remain this puerile, I'd ask you stay inside and not embarrass the rest of your country and let the adults work together. If you have a change of heart, I'd be more than willing to stand next to you and face whatever threatens the UK and US.
Stronger together! 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
You never hear parliament so quiet. You could hear a pin drop in there when people spoke. Very few interruptions
Valuable history. It should be listened to, disected and understood. I hope future people understand what this is.
Thank you, my cousins. After all these years, thank you.
May the US be successful in its future, alas it eclipse its already impossibly varied achievements in all fields🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
This, and many other acts of solidarity by the British, mean a lot to us in the US.
Brothers in arms
we had a hand in it
Back when politicians actually seemed somewhat human and not mindless drones/lizards like they are today
Tell that to all the people blair murdered looking for his "weapons of mass destruction".
How the hell did I find sea here
@@MrLordBear Blair was a shit and his policies were shit, especially foreign war and immigration.
@Tyler Lopes because they removed a dictator that violated more than 70 principles of UN membership? Sure the WMD argument was stupid and wrong but Saddam lost his sovereignty according to the bylaws of the UN and international law but ok you keep on with those feelings.
Ay yo give us a video about the moon or something
Friends and allies forever, the British are my brothers 💪🏽
*YEAH*
fools
🇺🇸vs🏴 the winner🇺🇸
@@deusvult8251 angry?
@@randomyankee8923 dumb?
The UK and The United States will be brothers forever 🇺🇸 🇬🇧
Anaconda Gaming TV If it wasn’t for us you would have lost World War 2 🇺🇸
twitch7771 if it wasn’t for us you would be British 🇬🇧
Dixie Normous if it wasn’t for us you’d be speaking German
Ffs why can’t everyone just get along, who actually cares about who did the most in WW2 or who made who. There’s bigger issues than that
If it wasn't for the big bang we wouldn't be arguing
"A Week ago, anyone suggesting that terrorists would kill thousands of innocent people in downtown New York would have been dismissed as alarmist. Yet it happened."
That is absolutely bone chilling
Not so bone chilling if you realize their first attempt was in 1993. The attacks on 9/11/2001 should never have happened. There were enough red flags to indicate something was going to happen, but the information wasn't acted upon.
Just forgetting the 93 bombing
And with the current war situation yet more unthinkable things may soon become possible as soon as the enemy decides to put events in motion
Already there is a campaign of suicide attacks in Pakistan, and they have a stony presence in Niger, which our own Allies in Nigeria intend to plunge into further chaos by unprovoked invasion, it is only a matter of time before the enemy squires the means to kill tens of thousands
@@jeffburnham6611everyone had a different flag, and nobody communicated to see the whole picture
Bro it was 8 years???
first time seeing a Tony Blair speech - absolutely incredible speech and one for the history books
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He is detested by the majority of people in the UK, he wasn't much liked back then when we didn't know the truth we do now: history proves he's a war criminal, declaring war on Iraq based on knowable false pretences. And the war on terror was exactly the same: flimsy evidence to link Osama to the attack, and it created more terrorists than it killed. We still to this day don't know for sure who funded the attacks because the 911 commission didn't want to know, so they never looked into it. The Saudi's are the most likely culprits. But they own the oil we so desperately want.
I repeat, tony Blair is a war criminal.
It's not that simple at all.
@@ferventheat no he's not. There are a group of people that admire Blair, there are a group that detest him, and there are a group that think he did some good, some bad. He handled Iraq awfully but over 400 politicians voted for that war. Others would've done what he did. I personally would've liked a deeper dive into the events preceding the war in Iraq to, if nothing else, learn the lessons from that for if we get into that situation again. I do not believe the inquiry was sufficient enough.
Blair did some good. In Ireland, in domestic policy... education and healthcare was in a much stronger position (relative to the population) in 2007 than it is now. That is down to Blair's government.
Where he failed was in Iraq and in other areas of his foreign policy which coincided greatly with the dissipation of his cabinet towards the back end of his tenure.
In the "historic rankings of UK Prime Ministers" he's generally ranked by experts at around 3rd place (behind Attlee and Thatcher) which is a fair summation of his time as PM
@@Matthew-bu7fg I’ve no doubt that the person with such fervent hatred of Tony Blair is a right wing Tory and was probably not old enough to understand the events of 2001 and the Northern Ireland peace treaty. Thatcher was no better and in my mind, a worse war criminal than Blair . Anyone who witnessed 9/11 totally understood the retaliation, against any form of state harbouring those who would wish harm upon the innocent . That day will always live with me and I will never forget the brave actions of so many, in standing up to these barbarous swine’s, who murdered not only innocent people, but our whole way of life.
fun fact:
SAS and SBS regulary train with DEVGRU and Delta Force
Most of their operations nowdayas are joint operations
If you are a British citizen with SOF experience you can tranistion and enlist over to Team Six or Delta, same thing if you are American, if they are living in UK they can enlist in SAS or SBS if they had SOF experience in the past.
What if you are a pacifist and do not want to take part in any of it?
I love the "aye" during these strong speeches. For a little while, the whole world kinda just banded together
Yes, there’s nothing like mass neurosis/cognitive dissonance.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
"A friend in need is a friend indeed."
No, they are just ponces 🤡🙄🥱
We Americans love our British family...the two nations share a common heritage and ancestry. I Prefer to refer to the British people as family...not merely friends or allies. It goes far deeper than that. I like to think of Great Britain as our big brother and we are the loud-mouthed but well intended little brother.
Should the world ever end, Britain will be standing next to the USA always.
You could say that 20, maybe 10 years ago but if you look at the makeup of parliament now most of them hate America. Only a very select few that defend our alliance.
Britain will be sucking America’s penis (as we always do) while basking in the world destroyed by America
Mr Spoon take your antisemitism somewhere else please. American foreign policy is evil due to the corporate greed, corruption and mostly right wing racist Christians who have neoconservative foreign policy beliefs. Take ur conspiracy theories and antisemitism somewhere else. Maybe find a crowd as stupid as you. Pathetic troll
Mr Spoon there won’t be a nwo.
Mr Spoon Assuming your theory is true (it is not, but let’s believe it for the sake of argument) then such organization had existed before our time and people such as yourself do nothing but blame Jewish nationalism.
Those of us that have peered into the abyss see the situation for what it is. A global economic system born out of either a necessity for stability or out of simple consolidation.
Your Zionist theories do not work because a) you understand not what Zionism means and b) is predicated upon a longstanding myth that Jews themselves are out to rule the world. Neither is true.
As an American, I always admired Tony Blair. He was also PM when Princess Diana died and he handled that situation very well. He was a true leader, one of those naturally born to lead.
Your perspective as an American is clearly limited. Here in the UK he is almost universally despised for being a shameless snake who pushed us into the Iraq war by lying to Parliament and the public.
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@@cerdic6305 at least he stood in solidarity
@@randomyankee8923 yes well done him. Very impressive to read out a prepared statement written by people more intelligent than him.
@@cerdic6305 believe what you want im not in the best position to debate this
After all these years that day still stands out. Terrible memories. At the same time I can remember moments like this. People coming together. 🇺🇸🇬🇧. May we never see another 9-11
Watch it on UA-cam . . ' Christopher Bollyn Solving 911 Audiobook . '
it's unfortunate that only tragedy seems to bring humans together :(
@Kham XVIII 9-11 didn't bring people together, it only brought the west closer and made everyone else more distant.
I was sent into Afghanistan shortly after 9/11 was wonded later on but the British stood side by side with us
I hope you're well healed mate.
Thank you for your service Sir 🙏🏽
Thank you for the war for oil and the illegal invasion of the middle East.
denny blain haha so funny man 🤣😭😂 🔥 💯
@Ima Hobo For acts of terrorism? Illegal invasion of the middle East?
So glad that we have such a close relationship with Great Britain. We are living in the era of one of the greatest alliances and freest cultures the world has ever known.
I was living in Britain when Tony Blair first became Prime Minister, and remember vividly how impressed I was with the commitment he had to the special relationship between Britain and the US. I've always seen it as unfortunate, being from the US, that the ensuing course of action and subsequent years have created if not a rift then a benign ambivalence between two great cultures which ought to be joint to the utmost. And as I see my own country flounder in its isolationism, it is saddening to see Britain endure its own version of the same misdirection in the form of Brexit. May rational humanists one day control the world under constant check of each other.
I can sincerely get behind this sentiment, well said
Ridiculous comment. You do realise our relationship with the United States was directly and constantly undermined by the federal nation they call the European Union, don't you?
I remember sitting here in Norway feeling quite confident that the US would rightfully display vulnerability and victimhood to demonstrate to the populations of Islamic countries that bin laden killed innocent people.
Then do aid, diplomacy, outreach with pacifism and collaboration, while going after Bin Laden with special forces.
Imagine my surprise when the response was the invasion of a nation instead.
I wasn't so naive I thought they would act kindly but it seemed the obvious choice both for justice and propaganda yet...
I was in second grade in a small town eighty or so miles west of Chicago. I was in Mr. Andersons class and we were talking about something to do with addition; and abruptly an announcement came on the intercom commanding all teachers to bring their students to the gymnasium. The gymnasium was also our lunch room and had tables built into the walls. They couldn't put the tables down though to save room so all the kids could sit.
The teachers all gathered at the front of the gym and watched an old TV with a wooden frame. The TV was faced away from the kids, but I can't forget one of the teachers reaction when I assume a replay of a tower being hit was played.
She screamed "my cousin is in there!" And fell to the floor. That's when all of us kids knew something was WAY off. A couple kindergarten kids started crying actually.
My parents were both at work so my aunt came to pick me up and she took me to the Ferrell gas my parents worked at. Her boss was crying, and he was a stern and tempered old man. Come to find out he lost a friend in the pentagon.
I mourn for all those who lost their lives that cold day.
I'm proud to call America our Allies. 🇺🇲🇬🇧
I’m proud to call Britain our allies. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
In not
@@paradisebreeze1705 then do us all a favour and fuck off matey.
@@travismaguire1349TIL you speak for every Brit, that's cool
When NATO proved itself, and the North Atlantic Treaty was finally ratified with the blood of its sons and daughters.
Over 1,000 NATO personal (the majority British) died in defense of the United States in Afghanistan, and this American will never forget.....
@@denguz3716 I said THIS American... Not all now did I?
@@denguz3716 I wouldn't say we are going into isolationism rather we are withdrawaling from conflicts people seem the percive as a lost cause
No, brave boys and girls bled, for the riches of the global war machine.
The world is not a safer place since our adventures in the desert.
@@NothingHumanisAlientoMe So Bin Laden embarked on mass murder for "the global war machine"?... I'm leaving Iraq out of it....
A madman given safe Harbor by extremists murdered thousands.... And the world reacted.... Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty explains the rest.
@@denguz3716 As an American I do agree.... What my government is doing IS short sighted and stupid!
Even though I wasn’t born yet it still breaks my heart
Well I feel old.
I was born but only a few months old
I was in grade 4 at the time. A blank canvas. To this day, I look back at how it's shaped how I view the world and war. My life would certainly have been different if I hadn't seen this happen with my own eyes.
@@HiRye I feel you. I was in first grade. We seen a lot of shit.
@@J14702 You could say that again
Love the camaraderie between us and our bros and sisters in the united states, we love you!
LMMFAO 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤡
We will always forever be in debt by Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British people, they showed us what true friendship and brotherhood meant by coming to the side of America as she lay wounded. Thank you!
A load of rubbish, Blair needs jailing
@@paradisebreeze1705 Blair and Bush both deserve not jaliling, but a harsher punishment for their war crimes
foool
This was recommended to me on September 14th, 2023.
Exactly 22 years ago to the day of this meeting.
The British people are our brothers. I only have a little bit of Irish and wales blood but I salute you UK forever God bless you from USA
Whoever finished speaking right at 2:30:00, I have to admire a man who speaks frankly. A lot of this was really nice and I’m not diminishing it at all-but sort of predictable stuff from politicians after a heinous attack on an ally-but this guy coming out straight up saying the airlines have potentially committed *criminal* negligence was a real wake-up moment. You can see some of the others getting a little uncomfortable.
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They are nervous because they realize that it could happen there too. That they are not immune from the acts of destruction and terror that plague the rest of the world. I imagine it was a sobering moment for many of them.
If people looked uncomfortable its because its a bit of an eye rolling speech, trying to blame Airlines for not stopping a massive well-funded, well-planned plot to hijack multiple planes. No one would have even conceived of something like that before 9/11. If you really wanted to start playing the blame game so soon after the attack then the blame clearly falls on the intelligence community, they didnt even see it coming.
It's hard to imagine that it has been 21 years this year. And like back then, here in 2022 we also stand before unprecedented challenges -- at least as far as anybody presently living can remember.
We started as foes... now we are brothers forever 🇺🇸🇬🇧
no
How did we start as foes? Most people in America migrated there from the UK. You are our descendants
@@travismaguire1349What the fuck is wrong with you
We started as british. We started as the same.
I’m American but was living in the UK on 9/11 - at the exact moment the attacks started, I was giving a tour to a couple of potential investors in my tiny and struggling startup company. They signed the deal that day, but had they known how it would crater the financial community I’m sure they would have walked away. They expressed shock for the fate of the people on the planes - I told them that the WTCs held upwards of 90,000 people on a work day so it might turn out to be even more horrific.
Personal as that is, our American and Australian friends are welcome to England as and when they want to come. Salt of the earth (saying) is how to describe our American friends! Having spoken to around 40 Americans here in England, can say with love Americans are our blood brothers and sisters!
i wish all brits were as kind as you. alot of yall shit on us
@@thikifo395 thanks my friend. Your comment works all around. We can have our independent, yet we come as one! Friend is friend, regarding of country we are from.
@@thikifo395 Whereas Americans are polite and respectful? Get real.
hadn't heard this before, but it shows great passion. It is quite indicative of how they feel, and I am in agreement as so many others. England and the UK is one of our greatest friends, England is like our big brother. Sure we fought, we had our arguments, but we came together as family should.
It was an isolationist ideal that prevented us from joining sooner in each early war, but now it seems we war to easily. But in due course we all learn and grow as people, as communities and as countries. And it is our actions that should be remembered and not some pretty words.
And they followed through, just as adamantly as their words suggested, may we always be friends. After all, its just a pond that separates us.
I was on my way to work when this happened. I had a 4, 8 and 11 year old!
God bless! 🙏
Cheers for this
Why blur the speaker ? This is a public broadcast ?
As an American, I have the utmost respect for the U.K. and I am Proud to call them Friends.
🇬🇧🍻🇺🇸
As a Tory voter, I’ve got to hand it to Blair, emotional appropriation, well spoken, class.
never put the words 'Blair' and 'class' anywhere near each other
he's a war criminal
@@finngape8503 you don’t need to tell me that
@Mr Spoon trust me I dislike Blair as much as the next person but I was just referring to this speech in particular in which I think credit is due
@Mr Spoon Look, I would never vote Labour, especially under Blair, but I firmly believe that those who can’t see past heir own core beliefs in the name of genuinely good politics or humanity are not ones for valid debate, no offence meant, I’m just appreciating his good speech 😂
Mr Spoon no you were talking about the speech, carry on?
Y’all Brits kick ass. That was moving, as someone who watched helplessly on TV as a teenager who couldn’t get in touch with his older brother in NYC because the phone lines were down. Y’all so well spoken, too. No wonder we’re bff’s. Y’all are like the “cool friend” lol.
Oh UA-cam recommendations, you've done it again!
I always say that September 11 can happen to anyone. Like the bombing in Paris.
I like that not only did they acknowledge the loss of life in the people in the towers, but also acknowledged the emergency services that risked, and lost their lives.
Back when I was proud of our parliament and leaders...
As an American that studied in the UK… Our countries’ will always be very close in relations, and I view our people as ‘cousins.’ I never met a bad person in the UK, and some of the best memories in my life are meeting locals in pubs and having a nice pint over conversation.
Unfortunately, both pubs and locals are in short supply.
@@user-iz1hd9si3m Yes indeed.
Why is the speakers face blurred?
Why the hell are their faces blurred out?!
I think this was the only time that Dennis Skinner kept his mouth shut in parliament
48:25 what about that shameful question he asked?
@@liamb8644 soz didn't see that bit
Must have been distressing to have more than 1 minute of differing opinion during that 2 hour long echo chamber
No matter how many years later I will always remember Karlie Rogers one of the 67 Britons we lost that day. She was 26 years old and I do not know if I knew her from school but that is irrelevant she had the rest of her life ahead of her and no amount of time will ever let me forget her or any of the innocent lives lost that day.
Why is that first guys face blurred?
I was on active duty at Ft. Campbell, KY...off-post at a friends house and made it to the TV right as the second plane hit..I made it back just minutes before the lock-down. We went on full alert and waited for orders. We didn't have to wait long
I was only in elementary school in New York City when the Twin Towers were hit. I remember I was living in Brooklyn back then, in a neighborhood where it would take about an hour or so to reach the Financial Sector downtown. At the time, I didn't understand what was going on necessarily, I just knew I had a day off school as it was starting up. However, my step-father at the time was working in CNN's main headquarters, a building directly across from the World Trade Center, where the day previously, my mother and him were enjoying the view of the towers from the higher floors of the CNN building.
That day, however, lay steeped in the air of uncertainty, as the whole day we hadn't received any word from him and none of our family members who lived in New York had heard anything. Eventually, late in the evening, he shows back up, covered head to toe in dirt, soot and dust. Apparently, he had been late for his eight o' clock shift in the editing room but he was still in the borough of Manhattan when the events took place. A fluke, a random brushstroke of fate that would have otherwise tethered me and my family inexorably to the senseless deaths that took place on that day.
Ten years later, I'd end up moving to Manhattan with my family, in the Lower East side, a neighborhood almost directly adjoining the Financial Sector. Our building at that time was significantly taller than the ones around us, giving us a direct view of Downtown New York City from almost every window we were facing. It's around this time in the early portions of the 2010s that the reconstruction efforts for what we colloquially refer to as Freedom Tower began peeking its head out from the downtown skyline. Every day, I would wake up, come home from school, and live seeing that building get bigger and bigger, slowly but surely. Shortly before I moved out, the building was just about done, soaring over everything else around it.
In an odd way, that newer building and that memory made me think of what's being demonstrated in this video. Resilience, tenacity, strength and the spirit of togetherness that truly shines on the moments when horrible and previously unimagineable darkness has transpired. New Yorkers tend to have a somewhat more familiar and almost accepted nature when it comes to the events of 9/11 while paradoxically holding it closer to our hearts than most others would. The worry, condolences and solemn solidarity that potentially billions around the world may have felt on that day towards an area in Manhattan roughly measuring 1 square kilometer is not only incredibly touching, but undeniably telling of the collective strength of the human spirit.
Near and far, native or foreign, young or old, it's moments like these which make us stop and remember that we can, have, and will come together when it matters the most. The unbreakable will of what binds us together as people will always ensure that come what may, we will always rebuild.
Together.
And the ability to be taken in big time. The rebuild should be named
The Tower of the Gullable.
I'd like to thank the United Kingdom for it's help after that dark day.
the man speaking after 1:25:00 was fantastic
Britain and America will forever be brothers and allies in the future to come 🇺🇸✊🏻🇬🇧
Cannon Hinnant was murdered ok who saved your asses in WW1 and WW2 shit didn’t change in both wars until we arrived
@@lancemuller9556 Greetings from the south east of England American brother
badgerlover78 if the world ever goes to shit again america and Britain will always have each other’s backs; and also greetings from New Jersey
@@lancemuller9556 seems like all that propaganda got to your head...
Finn the British and American history books love glorifying themselves but u have to admit, WW2 would have been a lot different if the Americans didn’t intervene on the allies side
Why has Michael Martin's face been censored?
i was alive for the event although i was only a 1 year old i grew up with the intense influence of the event (the aftershock) I feel its my duty as an American to help those in need i will and have been one to go in to save people i would give my life for the greater good for people to go about their day freely... regardless of race... regardless of gender... regardless of age... regardless of their religion... i had a rough life when i was young... seen the pain people can inflict on others... it broke me to the brink of suicide... but i stopped and thought about those in my life no matter how distant would be sad to have me go... from that day on i vowed to myself to never to allow people to feel the kind of pain i did when i grew up... if the call comes for volunteer work for the military if a large conflict happens i would gladly give my life for those around me... not for the want to die.. but the want to make sure no one goes through the grief and pain that a conflict can bring
As an American I truly appreciated the stirring and wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. While I may have disagreed with the PM on many issues (I would be a Tory if I were British) this American embraced the words of Tony Blair as we reminded of the special and enduring friendship of the USA and our best friends and allies, the UK.
Search . ' Solving 9-11 By Christopher Bollyn . '
Partners in crime & thick as thieves
Even today, almost 23 years since 9/11, I am in tears listening to the UK’s wonderful Parliament standing with us after that disaster. We love you, England! 🏴
I'm from Jersey City New Jersey where the NY skyline is like if you were in a place where mountains are your view when you look out the window. My Day began like any other as a soldier station at Fort Texas. Wake at 0445 as I lived off base made my bed prepared my coffee took a shower shaved got dress in PT gear. Head out the door 0530 go do PT. Got back home after PT about 0730 took a shower got dress in BDU's I called my mother as she was living in downtown Jersey City. She was already looking at TV news it was about 0830. The tone in her voice was heart wrenching as she was living within the nightmare. I asked what is going on as I didn't have the TV on the fear in her voice left me with no choice but to turn on the TV. By This time the second plane hit and I knew life had changed. I started getting calls to report with my ready gear. My words to my mother was "mom I don't know what is going on but I love you and please get out of there and go to my bothers. I got to go don't worry about me I love you!" Hung up and left to a change world. Where we were able to get on base we were now stopped at every point. what took 5 mins now took an hour.
I was only a young kid near Chicago when 9/11 happened and I just remember how everything around me basically felt very different. It’s interesting to see a similar reaction around the world
If I was British I’d probably be a Liberal Democrat, but Tony Blair’s speech here is fantastic and spot on (it’s just a shame he later fell for the Iraq War)
"to inflict such terror on the world, to take the lives of so many innocent and defenseless men, women and children can never, ever be justified" he says, to later support the killing of 100 000 innocent and defenseless civilians
Unlyricallyrics what are you referencing?
@@aidenarmstrong2863 Tony Blair intervened in Kosovo and participated in the invasion of Iraq and many more blunders in the Middle East
@@jomama3465 The international intervention in Kosovo and Bosnia was because of Serb ambition for Greater Serbia and the assimilation of it's cultural neighbours - draw parallels with the 30s as necessary.
Aside from Iraq, I'm not sure what blunders you're on about in which "100,000s died", because the War in Afghanistan was NATO led and UN sanctioned. The War on Terror is arguably the most important and necessary war fought since WW2
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Don't patronize me. This has nothing to so with Trump in any way shape or form.
And not only do I know of it, I've been.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j That's his opinion. I actually his actions in removing troops from the middle east has been far more destabilising over all than the war in Iraq ever was.
Afghanistan was fought to end the taliban harbouring Al Qaeda and stabilise Afghanistan. Arguably the latter hasn't materialized, yet they're hammering out a peace accord. But the former has been widely successful - Al Qaeda is nothing force; and nothing like it was in 2001.
As for Srebrenica, the reasons your using it are lost on me completely. I haven't refused to discuss anything, and no amount of you talking to me like a dick will change that.
If there was no intervention in the Yugoslav Wars by NATO I cam assure you, Srebrenica would have been a sideshow compared to what could have happened.
If you're critical at a western policy of being over zealous in it's interventions that's fine. Because you're right. The exit strategies for the likes of Afghan and Libya were cobbled together, and practically non-existent for Iraq. Which is why you see less intervention of that sort these days. But don't confuse that with not needing to intervene. Iraq notwithstanding, the War on Terror needed to happen, The Balkans War needed to happen.
We really don't need to have the speaker's face blurred out.
I do miss having a competent Prime Minster
Tony Blair is supposedly competent?
Horizon301 I know I thought that to myself as well.
LCI Gamer the only thing he is competent at is going to war under a false pretence. There is a reason most people despise him and call him a war criminal. He us up there with Clinton
Horizon301 I’m loving those wmd’s
Lol has he found those weapons of mass destruction yet??
This is actually a really good speech imo.
Anyone noticed that it says 2011 instead of 2001??
My god where has the time gone, I still remember this like it was yesterday
why is face of the speaker blurred ???? it's not like it's an anonymous job. And we can hear his voice anyway.
Why censor the speakers face? It's obviously Michael Martin
Came here to ask the same thing - never known the face of the speaker to be blurred before.
Probably down to the fact he was a disgraced speaker of the house. He was the first speaker in 300 years to be forced out of office over his actions over the MPs expenses scandal of 2009.
One of the greatest speeches ever.
Blair was far from an amazing prime minister, but he deserves some respect just for this
Absolute hate the man, but this speech is amazing. Touches me when I listen to it.
SoloKingxRobert No he’s not Tony Blair was a terrible Prim Minister and did many objectionable things however Iraq is not one of them Saddam Husain was a murderous brutal Dictator killing him was a great thing for the world
@@alcarbo8613 I'm not saying hes a good PM I'm saying he deserves respect for his 911 speech, no ones denying he was shit
He deserves no respect, he dragged the UK into the illegal invasion of Iraq which killed over a million people, war crimes and crimes against humanity were also commited, he doesnt deserve any respect he's just a criminal that wasn't tried for war crimes yet.
@@alcarbo8613 killing Saddam destabilized Iraq and caused deaths of countless people, he was a terrible human but in the end his death did more harm than good, and the invasion was also illegal so he was a war criminal.
It seems bizarre to see a clip from parliament 20+ years ago. Everyone seems more respectful and dignified than 2022 parliament
That 2011 at the start threw me off, I thought this was for the 10 year anniversary, couldn't understand why Blair was talking. I now realise it was a typo.
British people are so much more eloquent debate speakers than Americans!
because yanks are degenerate children of Britian
That’s ridiculous. You’re getting fooled by the accent. Both countries have amazing orators. I’d take MLK’s I have a dream speech over any speech to come out of Britain in 100 years, including Churchill’s we fought them on the beaches speech.
I had just turned 14 and watched the second plane go into the tower while I was at school. I had lost my father suddenly in January of that year. I froze. I knew in that moment many were feeling fear, anger, shock and grief on a massive scale. Everything about the world in my view had changed that year. This year I am 35 and the war within humanity is so great that we can only see joy, peace, and innocence through the eyes of today's children and with Jesus Christ. There is a common enemy and it has tentacles all around this planet. Our Father, thou art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.
Amen bro in Christ Jesus
Amen
American born but British bred, I am proud of my ancestral Britain. Forever Allies.
There is an error on the date in the summary under the video. It's supposed to be 14th September 2001, not 2011!