So what's your point? Terrorism has moved to the home front. 9/11 did that in case you did not notice. Long brewing problems often do that throughout history, or have you forgotten what prompted US involvement in WWII?
When terrorism exists as a wide scale practice against Americans, it is only a matter of time that they attempt it in America. Terrorism had been a problem for decades against Americans, as had arab hatred for America. There are video clips of them burning our flag as they riot in the streets dating back to the 60's. Barry Goldwater even used one in a campaign commercial. Now they've taken it to our soil and now we're responding in full force.
My point regarding Bush I's blame centers directly on whether or not Saddam Hussein is involved in supporting Al Qaeda.
That he's involved is likely. That he's involved as much as Osama bin Laden is impossible. Clinton was responsible for Bin Laden getting away, and Bin Laden was 100 times more principle in that attack than Hussein. Therefore it follows that Clinton bears responsibility well beyond anything you irrationally attribute to Bush.
We can reasonably infer that if he is supporting Al Qaeda, he is doing it from humiliation because of Desert Storm.
Not really. Saddam Hussein was an islamo-arab nationalist long before the Gulf War. He was a warlike tyrant long before the Gulf War. He promoted an anti-western arab expansionist agenda long before the Gulf War. He used and supported terror tactics long before the Gulf War. That you do not know this indicates your fundamental lack of understanding of Ba'ath politics and your lack of qualification to comment on them.
More so your attempts to blame America for the terrorists are straight out of the Chomsky school of left wing bullsh!t. If that is how you want to be known around here so be it. It's definately consistent with your other beliefs.
He didn't try to kill any former presidents prior to the Persian Gulf war.
He was a warlike tyrant who was given the green light to invade Iraq by the Bush administration.
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The Ba'ath Party is secular.
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