I'd say the key thing here really is the fact that whatever the reasons or justifications behind 9-11 may be - eg Bin Laden claims as one of the reasons the fact that the USA is propping up a corrupt and medieval regime in Saudi against the wishes of the local population which certainly makes sense -, but whatever the case may be, one thing is absolutely, totally and undeniably clear:
Iraq had absolutely zilch, nada, nothing to do with 9-11.
Nor did Iraq pose any sort of a threat to the USA or anybody else as Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice openly admitted in the days when sanity and common sense was still the preferred modus operandi as per my video here in an earlier post.
The mere notion of a sand box like Iraq back in Saddams day, or the even more ridiculous threat if thats possible being conjured up by Bushs spin doctors of Islam posing any actionable threat to any Western nation(s), are so totally and absolutely ludicrous and laughable to any sane person with an IQ north of their birth date that it's no wonder nobody takes anything coming out of Bushs Washington seriously any more.
The Neocons fearmongered the USA into war in Iraq by playing on and mass feeding their more gullible citizens paranoia and insecurity, for
reasons dealing mainly in oil as Alan Greenspan admitted recently.
For oil they started an evil, unwarranted war of aggresion that has slaughtered what may be up to 1,2 million innocent Iraqi citizens who wanted nothing else from life than what we all want.
For oil they started a war where torture and terror abroad and a destruction of democracy at home wrere suddenly legitimate means again.
For oil they started a war whose execution was characterized by nothing so much as near well total incompetence on a mind boggling basis.
For oil they started a war that has pretty well bankrupted them.
For oil they started a war that has
turned the USA into the country widely seen as the biggest threat to security in the world, and destroyed their superpower status in the process.
It's going to take Bushs successors quite awhile to dig themselves out of the bloody and unbelievably counterproductive legacies and incompetence he leaves behind. But one should still hope that they manage to achieve just that, as most Americans today are just as fed up with Bush and his counterproductive, toxic policies as the rest of the world is.
Oh.
You want to remove another major and absolutely understandable grievances Muslims have towards the USA, and achieve peace in the Middle East in the process ?
Then let the USA be an honest, impartial broker for a change, something it most definitely was not in the last 8 years, and go and provide BOTH Israel and Palestine with full fledged statehood.
