London calling

[stepnw1f]

The terror threat is real, it just wasn’t where Bush said it was

Those of us who oppose President George W. Bush’s war in Iraq would do well to remember that last week’s London bombings are only the most recent attack on the West by fundamentalist Islamists.

The radical Muslim war on democracy and secular values began in earnest in 1993 with the first, unsuccessful attempt to destroy New York’s World Trade Center. Plans had also been drafted to detonate two New York tunnels and a bridge. Two years later, bombers staged a series of lethal terror attacks between July and October in Paris; and, according to The Secret Archives of Al Qaeda, by Roland Jacquard, a bin Laden deputy traveled secretly through Europe in 1996-’97 to organize other terror cells.

The March 2004 bombings in Madrid, like the London attacks, were clearly triggered by our ill-conceived war in Iraq. Some sort of successful settlement there would certainly help to bring the international terror threat into more accurate focus. The arrogance and deception with which Bush and his band of brigands — Vice-President Richard Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and political adviser Karl Rove, to name just four of the most prominent — prosecute and defend their war dumbs down our understanding of terror, just as it pollutes our politics and compromises our respect in the eyes of the world.

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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/editorial/documents/04823491.asp

[bemildred]

1. "The radical Muslim war on democracy and secular values began in earnest"

Already, this fellow is knee deep in bullshit. It started long before, and it was not started by the Muslims bombing us, but by us invading their territory and bombing and gassing them. It is true they are fundies, but it is NOT true that they decided on terrorists attacks on the West because they are fundies. They have not the slightest interest in Iceland or Ireland, for instance, both of which are neck deep in Western values.

[CJCRANE]

2. This is the big lie

that the RWers spread, just like the Nazis spread the lie that the Jews wanted to take over the world.