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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7458)	7/20/2004 12:45:31 PM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

Syria is where Hezbollah and Hamas are Good point, but if you think this whole 9/11 "War on Terror" is really a cover to secure the oil supplies in the Middle East and Central Asia (as I certainly do), then the next logical step would be to topple Iran's government, not to go after terrorists. Why didn't we attack Saudi Arabia and Pakistan if we're really interested in fighting terrorism. Both of those countries have funded and supported terrorism against the U.S. We certainly have a keen interest in Iran historically, having installed and supported the Shah for decades. The "War on Terror" is just the cover used to attack these countries and put our bases in them and surrounding countries. Which is why they just let 9/11 happen, in my opinion. The War on Terror is comparable to the Cold War, which was used as justification for all sorts of economic meddling in the world by the U.S. Our installation and support of the Shah of Iran was "justified" by the Cold War. The Russian Bear was never the threat that our leaders portrayed them to be. They had a hard enough time with keeping their satelites under control, to become a truly expansive world threat. Every coup the U.S. ever supported during the Cold War was justified by the suppossed communist threat, be it real or imagined. Now, ever attack, every country we meddle in is being justified by the War on Terror. Not a whole lot has changed over the decades, except for the justifications.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7458)	7/20/2004 12:47:46 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 20039

Iran is a big player in Hezbollah. <<< ... The Israeli army slowly retreated from Lebanon under continued harassment from the country’s long-neglected Shi’i—who had originally welcomed them in 1978 as a counter to the Palestinian presence there, but who soon turned against them upon exposure to the occupiers’ contempt and hatred for the Lebanese. The resistance organization Hezbollah, in fact, was founded in 1982 under the guidance of Iran’s ambassador to Syria Ali Akbar Mohtashemi. Israel did not fully withdraw from Lebanon until 2000, however, having retained a slice of Lebanon up to the Litani for more than two decades. The United States gradually began economic warfare on Iran because of Tehran’s continued assistance to Hezbollah. In 1994 Israel claimed that an Iranian military buildup threatened Western interests. Two years later President Bill Clinton issued an executive order imposing sanctions on Iran. In 1996 Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanction Act (ILSA), written by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and providing for U.S. sanctions against any company—foreign or domestic—spending $20 million on Iran’s oil or gas industry ... >>> wrmea.com Tom