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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: twmoore who wrote (26652)	10/2/2004 1:53:12 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

That's a view that is as simplistic as the neocon thinking would be. I enjoy seeing how similar extreme thinking is on both sides. Seriously, my own personal belief is that it is a Bin Laden power grab. Upset with unable to be a chieftan in Saudi Arabia and seeing the influence the US has in SA, particularly the relationships among the House of Saud, the Bush family and others, including the Bin Laden family, he got pissed and decided to use his money to satisfy his ego. Using Israel, Iraq, etc., as good excuses and rallying the Jihaddists against the infidels enabled this pretty much secular individual to start or re-start an entire movement. That's my belief and it's as good and simplistic as any extremist view. The religious angle, as it often is throughout history, is a good excuse to rally the masses. Leaders, tyrannical leaders, feurers, pharohs, emperors often fight in the name of their god, without the slightest drop of religious blood in their own system.