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I don't entirely disagree with floridian above.

I was watching Charlie Rose with some A-rab who identified the major gripe of Bin Laden as the U.S./Saudi alliance (if you can really call it an alliance)

The thing is, what precipitated all the terrorist attacks? (1st truck bomb of WTC, U.S.S Cole, etc)
They never specifically said it was more than simply a "culture/religious" war.

I said on the very day of the 9/11/01 attack that this would change nothing regarding the general American response toward terrorism.

"Go out and do some shopping" my ass!

At that time I predicted it would take ten terroristic events each surpassing the last in its amount of carnage worse than 9/11 in order to see any unified national feeling against terrorism.

I'll never forget what some squirrel-brained chick with green-dyed hair stood up in class the day after and said
"Yes, the deaths [from 9/11] were tragic, but it would be even more tragic if this was used as an excuse to discriminate against Islamic Americans.

The indoctrination runs deep and wide in America, folks.

The answer isn't using terrorism as as excuse to run far afield, spending money, deploying troops for dubious reasons,

but rather to shake-down every illegal Mohammedan in the U.S. !
---and I hate the agencies that this falls upon, the INS, FBI, stinking cops, etc, but this war situation is the only kind that warrants it. (then we can get to work on disbanding THEM)

Hell! I like the towelhead that makes me my hummus and chwarma, but if he's illegal, his buddies ruined it for him.

Ship'em out, I say.

Sure there's plenty of good arabs here, but we are at war...just in the wrong theater, thanks to Bush (and congress)

I don't have empirical evidence, but i've heard often that all the falafel and shish-kebab stands in lower Manhattan were curiously vacant that day.

Even the good Mohammedans in our country hear things from the ne'er do-wells in the mosque basement get-togethers, overhear disgruntled gas station attendants around the backgammon table, and ignore it, just like white americans ignore our drunk, crotchety old uncles around the Thanksgiving table say stuff like "We oughtta ship 'em all back to Africa" and never give it a serious thought...

The difference is there's been a decade of action on their part!

Even if you want to believe Bush was in-on-it with with Bin Laden,
where's the public outcry? We were attacked on our own soil, and to add insult to injury, with our own planes filled with our fellow citizens!

Go shopping! was the war cry! And we went along with it like sheep.

All the more so if Bush was in-on-it...there's more of us than there is of him....remember "The militia is the whole able-bodied citizenry"

What ever happened to "Polish-up yer shootin' iron"?

Those attacks were conceived, planned, funded, facilitated and executed all from within our own shores, and nothing has been done about it.