Again, Walt, you are simply wrong. First, your hypothesis that Osama would not be incited to terror absent US presence there is nonsense. That region engaged in terror long Bush Sr. was there and long before he was even a congressman back in the 60's...
There are things we can reasonbly infer, and things we cannot. How many active attempts did foreign heads of state make on the lives of U.S. presidents (or former presidents) before 1990? Zero.
How many after Desert Storm? One, that we know of, and that one pretty closely following. Desert Storm winds down in the summer of 1991. Two years later, Saddam Hussein is attempting to blow up George Bush I. There was a reason for that. You're not being fair or objective, but that is only to be expected.
When Bush was a congressman back in the '60's there had been few acts of terrorism as we know it today. And many of those were done by the Jews. Menachem Begin had a price on his head from the British for blowing up the King David hotel in 1945. In the late 1940's, Ariel Sharon used to hump explosives into the West Bank and blow up Arab houses in retaliation for attacks on Jewish farmers.
Where does the U.S. fit in with that? Nowhere.
Name a famous terror incident. Okay, I'll name one -- the 1972 (almost typed 1792) murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympics. How was the U.S. involved? Not a lick. Name another -- put your hand down -- The Entebbe raid in July, 1976. Now even a clever boy like yourself will note that neither of those were in the 1960's and neither of these involved the death of U.S. citizens.
I don't believe, and if I am wrong, I welcome a correction, but I don't believe a single U.S. citizen lost his life in a terrorist incident perpetrated by arabs prior to Desert Storm in the United States (I'm not forgetting Pan Am flt. 103). What's the count now? I think the total dead at the WTC has been set at 2,801. Two-three hundred in the other three planes/on the ground. Maybe, if you lean this way, 187 in the Edward Murrah building.
You're going to get quite a reputation for spouting nonsense on a number of subjects here.
All these deaths of U.S. citizens --the death of EVERY U.S. citizen killed by Arab terror in the United States, can be laid directly at the feet of George Bush I.
If Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been handled competently by the Bush I administration, there would be no war on terror, no homeland defense, no terrorist cells in Buffalo -- none of that.
Walt
And how many opportunities did they have to do so? Most likely not very many. On the other hand, how many terrorist states made attacks on the United States and its persons before 1990? Countless, not to mention on our ally Israel. Palestinians have been blowing up Jews since the 1920's, if not before that.
I don't believe, and if I am wrong, I welcome a correction, but I don't believe a single U.S. citizen lost his life in a terrorist incident perpetrated by arabs prior to Desert Storm in the United States (I'm not forgetting Pan Am flt. 103).
Yet hundreds of Americans lost their lives and found themselves terrorized long before Desert Storm due to terror. Do you not remember Lebanon, Carter's iranian hostage crisis, or the hijackings of the late 60's, 70's and 80's? Americans were victims and often targets of attack after attack after attack. Yes, they brought it to our soil on 9/11 but terror has been going on for the better part of a century and terror against Americans has been going on for decades.
You're going to get quite a reputation for spouting nonsense on a number of subjects here.
Surely it could not compare to the reputation earned by an individual who voted straight Democrat for every president since 1984, regularly practices defense of Bill Clinton, trashes Bush Sr. and Reagan, and claims the 9/11 attacks were a result of the US successes in the Gulf War. That person would be you, Walt, and yes - you have a reputation.
"All these deaths of U.S. citizens --the death of EVERY U.S. citizen killed by Arab terror in the United States, can be laid directly at the feet of George Bush I." - Walt, 11/15/02
Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/786927/posts?page=452#448