Based on conversations I've had over the last few days, I am now convinced that Iraq has had a role in every terrorist attack against the U.S. since 1993. I'm also now certain that "radical Islam" is nothing more than a front that is used to mask Iraq's involvement (the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sealed that one for me).
This does not, however, necessarily mean that I am behind the U.S. war effort in Iraq. Before this happens, I have one condition for the Bush administration: Come clean on the incompetence and malfeasance in various Federal agencies that has had such a devastating impact on this country over the last ten years.
I've been convinced of this for some time as well.
For a while I thought 1993 was when the war started, with WTCI, then the more I read and heard, it became obvious that we (that is Western Civilization) have been under attack since 1973 when the US ambassador (I think that's who it was--Buckley) was kidnapped and killed in Lebanon.
When was the first attack outside of the Middle East? Was it in Munich at the Olympics in 1972? Ever since then, the islamos have been reaching outside of their area to hit us.
The decade of the 90s saw stepped-up aggression, which went unanswered each time we were hit. (I don't need to remind anyone here about just who was negligent either.)