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"One year after the WTC attack spearheaded the greatest-ever challenge to the values of the West . . ."

Wrong. The WTC attack pales in comparison to the complete subjugation and de-Christianisation of North Africa, the conquest of Constantinople, the invasion of Spain, France, and the Balkans, and the siege of Vienna. All of the previous challenges have been greater in scale and scope.

What makes this challenge different is the nature of the "defenders." In the past, whenever the Moslems went on one of their rampages, they were opposed by people who actually stood for something. What they stood for, of course, was Christianity (the Jews are comparatively new targets of Jihad) and they went to war against Islam in the full knowledge that it was "either them or us.".

George II, to the contrary, pretends to believe (or actually believes, which is a much more frightening possibility) that only a miniscule portion of the Moslem population is engaged in active hostilities, and THEREFORE Islam is a "religion of peace." This is an example of lying with statistics. Of course it is only a minority of the Moslems that are fanatics and active warriors. But here's the part that Bush et al. will not address: this minority constitutes the leadership of the Islamic community -- the teachers and clerics.

Let's concede that a small minority of the Islamic population is involved in terrorism. An even smaller minority of the Japanese population bombed Pearl Harbor. And they got two A-bombs for their troubles.

But now George II is preparing to attack everyone's favourite scapegoat, Saddam Hussein. I think if we look at the numbers, Saudi nationals have been guilty of killing more Americans on 9/11 than the Iraqi army did during the entire Gulf War. Yet we are still pals with the Saudis. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the major reason for sequestering the al Qaeda prisoners is so that that the public does not catch on to the extent of Saudi involvement in international terrorism.

But why let the facts get in the way of George II's Bush's Splendid Little War, Part Two?

ACtually Muslims went after Jews first. Read teh Hadith, which is quite explicit on this. Arabia once had a large Jewish population. Yathrib (later Medina) was built by Jews. Most members of the Quraish clan in Mecca (which Mohammed was related to by marriage) were Jews. Khaibar/Khobar (recently known for the explosion at the US barracks) was Jewish. All this changed from 624 to 630, whebn the armies of Mohammed conquered the Jewish tribes, killing the men and enslaving and converting the rest. Those tribes not fully deafeated where expelled from Arabia.

As for Iraq, I would note that there is considerable evidence that Iraq played a large role in teh first WTC attack and is now hiding Al-Qaeda members.
We do know that there are training centers in Iraq which contain a mock-up of airliners for terrorists to train on.
It is possible that Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi intelligence officers. I believe that Iraq has very dirty hands regarding 9-11.