Al Queda most defintly does NOT want US Troops sent home, at least not it's leaders. It's helping them recruit. They want to kill the US troops wherever they may be.
I'm not running for elected office.
Again, I don't give Dems a pass. My condemnation of their enabling of Bush is well documented, on this & the other board.
However, that does not mean that they would have started this war. You have an extraordinarily weak case.
And does anyone else find it odd that Dano seems to agree that at least a part of what started Iraq was the PNAC agenda, which 9/11 allowed the admin to sell, and then somehow make the leap that a Dem President would have also pursued the PNAC agenda?
Smart....
I don't believe that's true, nor do I believe there is a global jihadist movement to kill Americans.
What they want is for us to stop mass-murdering innocent people and to get the hell out of their country. We aren't fighting Al Queda in Iraq, we're fighting the iraqi people, no different than any invading force would be fighting Americans if we were invaded.
The only ones who want us in Iraq are the same people who took us there. Al Queda didn't ask us to come.
I don't believe there is a movement to just 'kill Americans' either. I believe we've just become the target of Al Queda over the past two decades because of our involvement in the middle east. We've become a tool for the leaders of this terrorist organization because we are pissing a lot of Middle Easterners off. The guys on the ground fighting us hate us and want us gone and probably would be happy to have us leave, those are Iraqi people. The guys in command want us to stay so they can continue to recruit, and the commanders of Al Queda aren't from Iraq. I think Al Queda is more about 'killing infidels' who don't support their religion, and we're just basically helping them. The Iraqi people are pissed that we even invaded, and they find common interests with Al Queda to get rid of us. Makes it easier for Al Queda to recruit.
I agree it has always looked suspicious. But I don't think you can conclude that the US government planned or carried out the attacks. I do believe and have for a long time now, that certain people in this adminstration understood an attack was coming, and made sure nothing was done to stop it.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=tipoff#a082301watchlistaddTIPOFF is a US no-fly list of individuals who should be detained if they attempt to leave or enter the US. There are about 60,000 names on this list by 9/11 (see December 11, 1999). Apparently there had been no prohibition of travel inside the US, but on this day a FAA security directive puts six names on a newly created domestic no-fly list. All six are said to be associates of bomber Ramzi Yousef, including his uncle, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM). On August 28, 2001, six more names will be added to this list. Apparently all 12 names are associated with al-Qaeda or other Islamic extremist groups. 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey will later note the discrepancy of the 60,000-name list with the 12-name list and comment, “seems to me, particularly with what was going on at the time, that some effort would have been made to make—to produce a larger list than [only 12 names].” [9/11 Commission, 1/27/2004] On the day of 9/11, two of the 9/11 hijackers will be on the 60,000-name TIPOFF list but not the 12-name domestic list, so airport security does not know to stop them from boarding the planes they hijack that day (see August 23, 2001).
Al Queda, the mujahideen and Bin Laden were all US assets my brother.
Who knows what level of complicity or direction may have occured, but it's not credibly possible to deny that one or both existed.
Did you know that surprisingly, a new terrorist watch (no fly) list was created before 9/11, and instead of having the 61,000 names it should have had on it, the new list by which airlines were operating, only had 12?
Some of the hijackers were on the list of 61,000, but none were on the new lists.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=tipoff#a082301watchlistadd
http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing7/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-01-27.htm
Coincidence?
Did you know there were 4 wargames, Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian, and Northern Vigilance simulating hijacked planes going on in virtually the same US airspace on 9/11 .. which provided cover for the hijacked planes?
"Is this real world or an excersise?"
Col. Robert Marr Jr., Northeast Air Defense Sector
"We have reports of 11 aricraft off course."
FAA Administrator Jane Garvey
"We didn't know how mant there are."
Lt. Col William Glover Jr., NORAD Air Defense
Coincidence?
Did you know a stand-down order had been issued in June, 2001 that transfrerred control of US response to hijackings from NORAD and commanders in the field to the Secretary of Defense?
http://911research.wtc7.net/planes/analysis/norad/docs/intercept_proc.pdf
Coincidence?
Yep, at one point they used us for weapons to fight off Russia. We were dumb and got involved in their wars, but our 'friendship' with them sure took a turn because they never really cared for us in the first place. Our involvement with Isreal-Palestine, and our involvement with Iraq made us easy targets.