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Originally posted by FlyersFan
He is important. He's very important. Both for psychological reasons and for military reasons. However, the idiots in DC have screwed up in not getting him so they are 'chatting-him-down' and claiming he's not important so they can cover their own sorry back-ends.
But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred.
So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider.
I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.
The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced.
I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy.
The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond.
In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors.
And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children.
And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.
This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages.
So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary?
Originally posted by silencer
That speech is from a videotape recording of Osama. So many of those grainy tapes were released that their authenticity is questionable. If Osama wanted he could have come out openly and admitted it on Live AlJazeera TV but instead we got a series of grainy videotapes with bad audio quality. And Osama in all those tapes doesnt even look the same making the authenticity of them even more questionable. Sorry, but this is not ABSOLUTE CONCRETE truth.
Originally posted by silencer
Not according to your president he is not.
waging illegal wars
and causing deaths of thousands of people
Originally posted by Maverickhunter
It isnt too important. Hey, if catching OBL was as important as ousting saddam hussein dont you think that they would have done that first? These terrorists attacks have been going on for a century since pre-wwi. So I'd say OBL is VERY important.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
He is important. He's very important. Both for psychological reasons and for military reasons. However, the idiots in DC have screwed up in not getting him so they are 'chatting-him-down' and claiming he's not important so they can cover their own sorry back-ends.