in reality it is because we are backing the Islreali's.
Skull OMG you fool! Don't believe this crap holy cow young man! Open your eyes... How many conflicts in the world are raging right now that are muslims against someone else...take Kashmir or Chechneya for example... can these be blamed on our support of Israel? No way in hell. Neither can 9/11. If there was any legitimate "reason" we were attacked it would have A LOT more to do with our "occupation" of the land of the two holy cities (Mecca and Medina) than it would about Israel.
And I quote directly from OBL's declaration of war against the US;
"The latest and greatest of these aggressions, incurred by the Muslims since the death of the Prophet (Allah's blessings and salutaions on him) is the occupation of the land of the two Holy Places the foundation of the house of Islam, the place of the revelation the source of the message and the place of the noble Ka'ba, the Qiblah of all Muslims by the armies of the American Crusaders and their allies."
He does go on to mention Isreal, but not more than as a collaboration of Zionism and the West to hold the Muslim world in the dark, but he does not differentiate between the two. Israel and the US are seen as one and the same, not as separate entities. The last straw for Bin Laden was the Saudi's allowing our troops to be stationed in the Arabian Peninsula during the first Gulf War. If it was our support of Isreal that triggered 9/11, don't you think Bin Laden and Al Quaeda would have had it out for us before that? They didn't. This statement was written in 1996. Take that back to your ignorant history teacher that just takes his/her lessons straight from the textbook without doing and real research.
I was a history major in college Skull, and I have frequently gone back to look at textbooks used in junior high and high school and have been absolutely SHOCKED at how far off the truth they are. Revisionist and appologist history is unfortuantely alive and well in this counrty. I actually read what you were told in a textbook I picked up about 6 months after 9/11. At a time when our government still wasn't clear on what happened, do you think some egghead writing this text right after the fact with probably little other expertise than his contempt for America knew what the hell he was talking about? Gimme a break!!! WAKE UP!
