At 04:11 PM 3/31/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>Tell me the war is because of the liberation of Iraq.
Indeed, the war is because of the lack thereof.
By not liberating Iraq in 1991 (a very reasonable decision at the time,
based on the information available), we were compelled to establish a
permanent military presence in the absolute dictatorship of Saudi Arabia,
which is also the Muslim Holy Land.
We now know that this military presence was a primary animating factor for
Osama bin Laden and the Saudi hijackers who destroyed the World Trade
Center, a corner of the Pentagon, and a field near Somerset, PA.
Anyhow, Democrat Bob Kerrey (on the 9/11 Commission) recently had the most
salient about this. His quote was something to the effect of, "20 years
from now, noone will be able to look back and say that we did the wrong
thing."
JDG
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