[Aurel]

It does not take a lot of money to do some huge scale killing. Al Queada, if they were not financed by the CIA, did it on a rather limited buget. It does not have to be oil money either. North Korea has enough money too, has developed nuclear capabilities without oil money, and is a dictatorship as well. My point simply is that the wole terrorism argument is pure BULL. If islamist fundamentalists were so eager to hurt the american economy or way of life, it would be easy for them to do so. Easy for some suicide bombers to sneak through the canadian border and blow themselves in the middle of a mall. Has this happened yet ? NO. The only thing that drives islamic fundamentalists to terrorism is when THEIR land is occupied. And as far as sept. 11 goes, I don`t beleive it ultimately originated from islamic fundamentalists, but this is another story...that goes back to the question of who really runs El-Quaeda. Anyways, so far, we have:
- Bin Laden: not found
- Originator of the anthrax letters: not found
- WMDs: not found
- Saddam`s fate: not found
etc,etc...

My gut feeling simply is that the whole thing stinks, that there is big time manipulation of the public opinion, and it is not only the french who think that...the democrats in this country do too. Anyways, the coming elections will be interesting to follow, even if I cannot vote. There is also the argument that the war was worth it because mass graves were uncovered. Well, if uncoevring mass graves and stopping mass killings is really the concern of this administration, there is a hell of a work to do in Africa and South America. But the goals of the war seem to change on a daily basis, which leads me to beleive that the true goals were not disclosed to the public.

Aurel

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