IF saudi arabia was implicit in the 9-11 attacks SHOULD we have attacked them?

[agnostic102]

The fresh wounds of the iraq war is still scar on this country. But out of courousity. IF its finally proven to be 100 percent that the saudi arabian government was involved in 9-11 Should we have invaded and or attacked that country?

For me im torn. With saudi arabia being the birth place of islam. id say no as any attack on them might trigger a global war with muslims (although in a small way that seems to be going on anyway) but at the same time. This wahhabi bullshit this country has influenced around the world has gotten many people killed. Not just 9-11 but many innocent people including many Muslims.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. You kidding? Bin Laden went ballistic (literally and figuratively) for just having

our military plant our planes on Saudi soil. Can you imagine what invading that country would cost (literally and figuratively) and for how many years??

[Wilms]

2. Invading two countries that had nothing or little to do with it wasn't cheap.

[KansDem]

3. A full investigation is warranted

I don't think the Saudis acted alone. Release the 28 pages and we'll see...

[StarTrombone]

4. Well, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

And FDR attacked Germany

So there is precedence

[lancer78]

6. Because Hitler declared war

on the US first. Right after Pearl Harbor.

[arcane1]

5. We definitely should not be treating them as beloved allies n/t

[agnostic102]

7. i think

i think at the very least we should break ties with them. there HAS TO BE some sort of punishment.

[beachbumbob]

8. We should have instituted an embargo...

[lunatica]

9. There should have never been a war over the 9/11 attacks

We should have pursued the criminals who did it with international law. We did it in the first attack on the World Trade Center and the terrorists who did that are rotting in our jails now.

The war was deliberately started by Bush and Cheney because they wanted one. Why else attack Iraq who never had anything to do with it.

The world is paying for the Bush greed with Isis.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. This was all about controlling the

World Oil Production,appears the U.S.Army and the CIA decided they could pull this stunt off,well that did not work out to well,did it.

Wasn't this kind of a done deal as early as 1998 via the Neo-Con Community?

[lunatica]

11. Cheney's exact words were, "it'll be a cakewalk"

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Remember that,

and remember what Georgie Boy said in 1997,something to effect.,when I get elected,I will take out Saddam.

[gratuitous]

13. Game, set, match

That's the right answer: Pursue the surviving associates of the perpetrators, build the case against them, try them in open court, prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and send them to jail. At least, that's what a public official who swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution would do.

Instead, we got a bunch of claptrap about "my job is to protect the American people," which his successor has sadly said on more than one occasion. The President's job isn't to protect the American people. We aren't vulnerable, defenseless children. The President's job is right there in the Oath of Office (see previous paragraph). Without the Constitution, we don't have a United States of America.

[jwirr]

14. We should have used our police force (international) to

investigate and taken legal action. We would have been way ahead in this world if we had handled it that way and we would have killed a lot less innocent people.

[agnostic102]

15. thank you for the correction

I got a PM correcting my title from implicit to complicit. Im sorry English is not my first language so i have a difficult time sometimes. Thank you i meant to say complicit!

[Sam_Fields]

16. Great Idea! Let's get the US navy and Marines to invade Saudi. It will be a cake walk.

G'sus Christ.

[Chan790]

17. We don't need to.

Attack them, that is.

Saudi Arabia is not Iran or even Iraq, they've never had an industrially-diverse economy. A US embargo of Saudi Arabia that is backed by the rest of NATO brings them to heel in days, not weeks.

[Fumesucker]

18. It wasn't the Saudis challenging the petrodollar, they know which rules can be broken and which not

Saddam had taken Iraqi oil off petrodollar trading and was selling it for euros.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,00.html

Oddly enough that's something Gaddafi did with Libyan oil too.

We came, we saw and the petrodollar survived, for now.

[cali]

19. You mean complicit in.