Bravo! Finally a great blog.

That’s right, a neolithic failure! Steven King couldn’t have envisioned this level of carnage with weed, Absinthe, acid, crank, and a jug of Jack while looking at Anne Coulter naked. There just aren’t words to describe US incompetence in Iraq under the influence of Rummy Dumsfeld and the hubris of Dumya POTUS, who should have taken that page from his dad’s playbook. Poppy tried and tried to tell Doufas Dumya that chasing Saddam into Bahgdad was a colossal mistake.

But Junior just had to pull his wick out and measure it in public to prove to his boys that he had the goods the same as his dad. Fortunately, two members of that loathsome package have been confuscated by the DEMS, and now rest safely in Nancy Pelosi’s purse. Meanwhile, though, the nation has made clear that this military conqest built on lies and dead bodies in New York City 91101 needs to be over. The whole world has tired of a little tyrant in a big hat screaming from inside his little Charlie One Horse boots.

Ending this crap will be no worse for Iraq than prolonging our occupation. Trust me, if the Iraquis really want life, they’ll live once we’re out. Every other foreign population the American Armed Forces has depleted and abandoned has managed to live through the bad experience. Furthermore, they want us gone from there. Iraq is sick of us squatting for that oil. It’s time to get the hell out, and let them have at running their own country THEMSELVES sans all US interference. We got enough on our plates just prosecuting homegrown crowns for all the lies and deceit that has brought the world to this point in life.

I’m tired of politicians using our soldiers like this. Bring them home now!

1) Hmmmmm, Good question, Juan. I would say in the post-World War II-era, yes, the U.S. has been motivated by national security concerns. As for the period between the Spanish-American War amd the beginning of World War II, I make no argument that U.S. excursions into South and Central American countries were always motivated by national security concerns. I would agree with that economic concerns likely prompted many, if not most, of those military actions.

2) I believe the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda were motivated by a concoction of religious zealotry (I know it is now in vogue to mock the idea that Al Qaeda attacked us because of our way of life. But I think it is obvious that Al Qaeda being a radical Islamic fundamentalist group finds American society to be obscenely secular, materialistic and depraved…Remember Bin Laden was heavily influenced by the writing of Sayid Qutb., who spent time in the United States in the late 1940s and left with a loathing of Western society, saying the West possessed “nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and justify its existence); a desire to have the U.S. remove itself from the Middle East, specifically and most importantly to Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia; and lastly, to punish the U.S. for its support of Israel. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda before 9/11 hardly ever mentioned U.S. policy towards Israel. They only did so after 9/11 in an effort to rally more Muslims to their cause. But I think it is unlikely given the history of the Middle East in the post-WWII-era that Bin Laden and his followers would not have been influenced by the Arab-Israeli conflict.

You are a class act . :)

1) Do you say that everytime US supported not so good people was ONLY to accomplish goals related to national security?

2) Lets forget about inside jobs. What do you think were the reasons that led Al-Qaeda to do 9/11?

What Wayne said (Posting #69)

Comment by Exley

C’Mon, you mean “Barfly, Zinni retired from the military in 2000, before Bush was even president.,”
isn’t refuted by “Zinni retired as a four-star general in July 2000 ? Why don’t you admit you were wrong in stating that he wasn’t there in 2000, when I posted a credible source stating otherwise? It’s a small point, but if you can’t even admit you were wrong on something so trivial, it shows how willing you are to overlook facts to make your case.

We were attacked on September 11, 2001. My father was supposed to be at a meeting that morning at the pentagon, but in his own words it was “stangely postponed”

My son was in New York going to college and passed under the WTC on the subway just minutes before the attack.

Who was the cause is a big question mark that has not really been answered. There seems to be inacuracies even from the 9/11 Commision: Like why are 7 of the people named as 9/11 hijackers still alive and livingin the middle east?

Satam al Suqami, Wail and Waleed al Shehri (two brothers) Both Alive, Abdul Aziz al Omari Alive, Fayez Banihammad (from the UAE), Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, Mohand al Shehri Alive, Saeed al Ghamdi Alive, Ahmad al Haznawi, Ahmed al Nami Alive, Majed Moqed, and Salem al Hazmi Alive (the brother of Nawaf al Hazmi).

How can the 9/11 Commission be taken seriously when they refer to 9/11 ‘hijackers’ who are still alive?