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The New War Against Terror
That is the culture in which we live and it reveals several facts. One is the fact that terrorism works. It doesn’t fail. It works. Violence usually works.
Like other means of violence, it’s primarily a weapon of the strong, overwhelmingly, in fact. It is held to be a weapon of the weak because the strong also control the doctrinal systems and their terror doesn’t count as terror.
Terrorism is not the weapon of the weak. It is the weapon of those who are against ‘us’ whoever ‘us’ happens to be.
Chomsky criticizes US violence
"The United States can contribute to millions of deaths around the world because of the silence or servility of the educated classes who could easily find out about this."
"This is the first time the guns have been pointed the other way. For hundreds of years, Europeans have been slaughtering each other and slaughtering people all over the world. But the Congo didn't attack Belgium. India didn't attack England. Algeria didn't attack France," he said. "The world looks very different depending on whether you're holding the lash or being whipped by it."
"The world is ruled by force. The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it."
Morality, Terrorism and the Laws of Motion
But they ignore the laws of motion, especially Sir Isaac Newton's law of reciprocal actions. The law states: Whenever one body exerts force upon a second body, the second body exerts an equal and opposite force upon the first body. In popular vernacular, this law is also known as "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Osama bin Laden has translated Newton's law into his own words: "If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours."
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Iran has been sponsoring terrorism for decades.
Petrodollar Warfare
Saddam Hussein sealed his fate when he announced in September 2000 that Iraq was no longer going to accept dollars for oil being sold under the UNs Oil-for-Food program, and decided to switch to the euro as Iraqs oil export currency.
Operation Iraqi Freedom was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases before the onset of global Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars while hoping to thwart further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency (i.e. petroeuro). However, subsequent geopolitical events have exposed neoconservative strategy as fundamentally flawed, with Iran moving towards a petroeuro system for international oil trades, while Russia evaluates this option with the European Union.
Iraq DID have ties to Al Qaeda. They might not have had WMDs but Al Qaeda has been linked to Iraq.
Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed
We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.
BBC - No Links
There are no current links between the Iraqi regime and the al-Qaeda network, according to an official British intelligence report seen by BBC News.
MSNBC - Powell: No proof links Iraq, al-Qaida
Secretary of State Colin Powell reversed a year of administration policy, acknowledging Thursday that he had seen no “smoking gun [or] concrete evidence” of ties between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.
Rumsfeld: No Solid Evidence
"We do have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al Qaeda members, including some that have been in Baghdad,"
Pakistan is our ALLY, and has been HELPING us hunt down Al Qaeda.
Syria is just there.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
If we went into Iraq for oil, where is it? WHy is gas here going up almost every week? Why hasn't the price of oil come down even a little? WHERE is the oil we went into Iraq for? Oh wait, we HAD to go in for oil, because the first letter of Operation, and Iraq are the first two letters of oil. So THAT'S the secret message.
Iraqi Oil Shock
During the run-up to the war, the Bush administration denied that oil was a factor in its desire to oust Saddam Hussein from power: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, during a November 2002 interview with CBS News' Steve Kroft, declared that the approaching U.S. invasion had "nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil." But four months later, as U.S. troops seized Iraq's oil infrastructure and closed in on Baghdad, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (now the president of the World Bank) made it clear that Iraq's oil was going to save American taxpayers a lot of money.
Originally posted by LA_Maximus
To say Bush has created terror is ignorance beyond belief, because radical Islam has taken root in many countries which have no connection to the our Terror war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Originally posted by zoso28
Since Sept 11, there has been no attack on US soil, because the terrorists are to busy fighting in the middle east.
Originally posted by Tuk
Correct me if i'm wrong, but besides 911, there have been only 2 acts of terrorism inside US (atleast in 40++ years), WTC in 1993 and Oklaholma in 1995.
Oklaholma bombing was made by american, not by fundamentilistic muslims, so i don't think it counts.
So there has been only 2 acts of muslim terrorism inside, with 8 year interval.
This means that it is way too early to say that invasion of Afganistan / war against terror has stopped or even distrupted terrorists from attacking against US in US soil.
Originally posted by esdad71
Al Qeada created the War on Terror, not Bush. If Clinton would have had the balls to do something about them in the 90's 9/11 could have been prevented.[edit on 18-1-2006 by esdad71]
Originally posted by LetKnowledgeDrop
Ummmm, excuse me, to all those who still think Bush is some kind of hero trying
to bring peace to the world, I got news for you: ALL the evidence shows that it was Bush and his government that carried out 9/11. Shall I post links?
www.serendipity.li...
www.reopen911.org...
www.martiallaw911.info...
www.infowars.com...
There can be no doubt that Bush AT THE VERY LEAST knew about the attacks.
www.infowars.com...
Dont forget all the pre 9/11 warnings from all over the world.
www.infowars.com...
www.commondreams.org...
www.globalresearch.ca...
www.cooperativeresearch.org...
thewebfairy.com...
I have so much evidence.....
Shall we go into the Bush-Bin Laden connections?
www.infowars.com...
www.infowars.com...
www.scoop.co.nz...
www.tvnewslies.org...
How bout that 7 of the supposed hi-jackers were found ALIVE AND WELL after 9/11, including one who works for Morrocan Airlines today!
www.rense.com...
911review.org...
www.uscrusade.com...
www.allaahuakbar.net...
PLUS, im not done, plus the fact that NORAD stood down on 9/11.
www.prisonplanet.com...
www.rense.com...
www.ratical.org...
Face the facts America, Bush and his government are the real terrorist. They have passed laws that gut the constitution, laws such as the Patriot Act....
www.epic.org...
www.prleap.com...
Dont forget about the Patriot Act 2, which alsolutely destroys the constition.
www.eff.org...
Thank God that legislation hasnt passed....yet.
The War on Terrorism is really the War of Conquest. They planned to attack areas in the middle east long before 9/11.
www.newamericancentury.org...
www.nadir.org...
www.informationclearinghouse.info...
www.commondreams.org...
www.globalpolicy.org...
www.the7thfire.com...
The proof is overwhelming: Bush and his masters used 9/11 as the pretext to launch their War of Imperialism. The facts are the facts. If you still believe CNN and FOX (all controlled by your government), then what can I say....go fight the war.