QUOTE (Renegade @ Oct 3 2005, 10:48 PM)
Without any evidence? Osama came out with a video a lil while after taking credit for it... dunno what your talking about.
The video wherein Osama first claimed responisibility for the 9/11 attacks was released during the Iraqi war. Bush claimed Osama was responsible within a day or two of the twin tower attacks. I remember because at the time I joked that he'd jumped the gun and placed blame as quickly as Clinton had blamed Osama for the Oklahoma bombing. I guarantee if they hadn't found McVey, we'd all be saying Osama had been behind Oklahoma, even to this day.
By the way, I think all these tapes are bullshit, about as genuine as the evidence of WMDs and the Jessica Lynch rescue. Osama has been dead for years, and is a convenient demon to pull out and scare the kids into going to war. I still hear yokels saying that if the US hadn't invaded Afghanistan we'd be speaking Iraqi right now. This odd mix of Patriotism, Geographic Ignorance and Political Apathy is making a small set of guys pretty rich. Maybe public school really IS bad.
A no bid contract for a bridge that we gotta build, a levvy we gotta fix, some people we need to shelter; maybe these are justified given the circumstances. A no bid contract to clean up the damage done by an illegal invasion, justified on lies? That's war profiteering. That you can connect the dots to the Oval Office in only three steps is sickening. It's not even a conspiracy; it's open theft.
If the Afghanistan war wasn't bogus, then how come we didn't find any evidence of any international terrorist conspiracy, Al Qaeda or otherwise? How come the only guys we found there were the existing government? Did they resist to protect Al Qaeda? No; they resisted because they knew the US intended to support another government in their place, just like she did the last time, when she put them in power.
I'm glad the two minute hate isn't lost on you, Renegade, but I have to tell you: there is no Goldstein. We have not always been at war with Eurasia.
Slade: we are not!
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).