Posted on 05/17/2007 12:33:40 PM PDT by kathsua
Many Americans don't understand why the Saudis flew airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
During Desert Storm, the first President Bush decided to use a containment strategy against Saddam Hussein instead of attempting to remove him from office. This strategy required stationing American troops in Saudi Arabia.
Osama bin Laden and his supporters believed that our troops, which al-Qaida considered to be "infidels," were not only occupying their holy land but desecrating it. They hated us because of the occupation and decided to try to force our troops out.
First they attacked our troops. When that didn't work, they attacked our embassies and the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden then decided to declare war on the U.S. by attacking the U.S. directly in what became the 9/11 attack.
The 9/11 attack was the price we paid for allowing Hussein to stay in office instead of attempting to remove him during Desert Storm.
We are now at war with al-Qaida. They are fighting us in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Retreating from either battle would provide Osama bin Laden and his gang of terrorists a safe base to plan a new attack on the U.S. Retreating from either battle would tell Bin Laden's gang that it can use terror to take power and create a Muslim empire. Muslims who share his view of the world will enlist in his army to spread terror.
Al-Qaida won the battle of 9/11 because we weren't prepared. We shouldn't let them win the battle for Iraq just because we cannot win it as quickly as some people want.
I wish Americans didn't have to risk their lives fighting al-Qaida in Iraq. I also wish that Americans didn't have to risk their lives fighting crime or fires here in America.
But I realize that someone has to try to stop criminals. Someone has to fight fires. And someone has to try to stop al-Qaida terrorists. Some country has to be the world's "Matt Dillon" and the U.S. is better qualified for that role than any other country.
http://www.hutchnews.com/opinion/westernfront/stories/wrong051707.shtml
Consistently wrong
Your editorial "guard down" shows consistency on your part, if little else. You have been consistent in blaming the Bush Administration for everything from the Iraq war to storms in New Orleans and Greensburg.
Your support of the ridiculous statements by Kathleen Sebelius that Greensburg will suffer because our National Guard equipment is in Iraq shows once again that you speak without thinking. The people of Greensburg have stated that they are pleased with the National Guard response. The commanders of the National Guard have stated that they have plenty of equipment to respond.
Is it not time that you report facts and not your desires, your opinions, your liberal mantra, furnished to you by your silly supervisors?
Again, you get an A for consistency. Consistently wrong!
CHARLES M. TABLER
Whether stationing troops in Saudi Arabia inflamed Al Qaida is a moot point. We cannot have our foreign policy subject to a terrorist’s veto.
Bin Ladin said that he would defend his country against Bin Ladin if he were placed in charge of his country’s defense.
In other words, in a war between his country and Iraq, he backed Iraq.
He began a series of attacks against the US for its “occupation” of his homeland, he says, but in fact he attacked us for our alliance with his homeland. When later he openly declared war on the US, his reasons were specifically our containment of Iraq and the supposed damage done to Iraqis.
You’ll remember that he drew first blood in Somalia, when we went in to save the lives of muslims. While we were delivering food to dying muslims, he was organizing attacks on Americans even then.
Bin Ladin’s propaganda is intended to explain to the muslim world why he is attacking the country that defended muslims in the Gulf War, defended them in Somalia, defended them in the Balkans, and instituted the no-fly zones in Iraq again to protect kurdish and shia muslims.
Er, thats "defend his country against Saddam"...
Dang.
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