Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] London Underground Explosions

date posted 10th July 2005 07:01




Are you saying that the bombing in London was carried out by 'Saddams
people' then











On 9/7/05 10:05 pm, "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
>> Talking of chickens - which came first the chicken or the egg, september
>> 11 or us invading iraq ?
>
> 9/11 was nothing to do with Iraq, it was carried out by Bin Laden's
> people, not Saddam's. It was probably carried out to hurt the USA which,
> by encouraging the regime in Saudi Arabia, pisses off much of the middle
> east in a big way. There may have been other reasons - no-one has
> explained why Bin Laden's family were spirited out of the USA on private
> jets when all other flights were grounded... A cynic might even think
> Bush might have organised it, as his ratings were falling and he badly
> needed an excuse to go to war, but I'm not that cynical ;)
>
> It did however, somehow, provide Bush with an excuse to "finish the job"
> and re-invade Iraq, after a token stab at Afghanistan (they still haven't
> caught Bin Laden), mainly to get control of the world's largest oil fields.
>
>> - if you are saying that this is a direct response to
>> us being in iraq ( and I do not wholly disagree with you ) - what was the
>> justification for bombing the twin towers or the many many examples of
>> terrorism against the US -
>
> The USA seems to think it can rule the entire world, and change regimes in
> countries it doesn't like, when it suits it. Some parts of the world find
> the USA's interference in their own countries somewhat distasteful. The
> USA armed Bin Laden to get the Russians out of Afghanistan, and the USA
> installed Saddam in Iraq (many meetings with Rumsfeld!). The history of
> the Middle East and the USA's involvement is pretty messy, and Bush and
> Blair would rather people worry about terrorism rather than read history
> books :(
>
> Anthony