Osama Bin Laden (whose brother is one of
George W. Bush's Texas business partners), has issued only two
statements regarding the September 11th attacks, and both of those are
denials of any involvement.

Bull****. On another tape he is heard marveling at how the towers fell in that
it was not something he had anticipated happening.

Bin Laden has about 30 brothers, so what?

The 19 names of suspected hijackers released by the FBI don't point to
Afghanistan. They come from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates;

Al Queda recruits from all over the Muslim world. Al Queda practically ran
Afghanistan through the puppet state of the Taliban. This is widely known.

or plug leaks in high-tech flowing to foreign nations,

Petty tough for the FBI to do when the last President was selling high tech for
campaign cash.

We are being told that this crack team of terrorists, able to breeze
past airport security as if it wasn't there,

Prior to 9/11 it wasn't there. These guys did nothing illegal on 9/11 until
they hijacked the aircraft.

wound up leaving so much
evidence in its wake that the bumbling Inspector Clouseau (or the FBI)
could not fail to stumble over it. The locations where the terrorists
supposedly stayed are so
overloaded with damning materials that they
resemble less a crimes scene, and more a "B" detective movie set,

This was a one time operation. What did they care if they left anything
behind. The nature of the operation was such that they knew it could never be
duplicated in the same way.

Truly devout Muslims would spend the day before a suicide attack
fasting and praying.

That is not how they do it in Lebanon or Israel. They typically get them high
on coke and bring in foriegn whores for them to use. These so called muslims
are just as twisted as many religous fanatics here of all stripes.

(why does a terrorist about to
die need to check baggage?) that "somehow" didn't get on the final,
fatal, flight.

Because the whole point of was to get on the planes in the most ordinary manner
possible thus calling no attention to themselves. Even prior to 9/11 one point
of attention for security was people travelling without baggage. Since they
didn't know the baggage would miss the flight they didn't care what was in it.

the manner in which FDR manuevered Japan into attacking Pearl
Harbor

Oh, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

President Ronald
Reagan ordered massive air attacks on Libya, including an obvious- and
illegal(under US law) attempt to assassinate Qadaffi himself. Some 100
Libyan civilians were killed, including Qadaffi's two year old
daughter. Libyan officials had no idea why they were attacked.

Bull****. Libya was neck deep in supporting terrorism then. Reagan's attacks
have kept Quaddafi quiet for nearly twenty years and Bush's attacks have
convinced him to abandon that line of endeavor. Pretty good results.

Oil companies want Afghanistan's petroleum
products.

Pretty good trick for a country that has to import most all of its petroleum
products.

Too many of those who purport
to report the "truth" to us are eager to grab more tax money and more
children to pour into a war of invasion, poised at a region which has
swallowed up every army that has tried to conquer it since the time of
Alexander The Great.

I would think the Ottoman Turks did pretty well, the British certainly
dominated that region for a hundred years, the Russians would still be in
Afghanistan if only Gorbachev had a pair of balls and real money to spend.

Two countries occupied and one taking itself out of the terrorism business and
all for fewer killed than are typically in murdered in a year in two of our
largest cities and tens of thousands less than those who die in traffic
accidents in a year.

There are problems to be addressed. It is time we stopped trying so
desperately to avoid insulting Iraqis. If they don't want their mosques in
ruins let them keep the terrorists out. Otherwise they should be fair game if
there are terrorists inside. We need to spend more money on the military and
not play the shell game of cancelling projects in order to finance the war.
The terrorists that survive will try different and new things and we need to
anticipate what they might do and prepare for it. We need to make it clearer
to all Muslims that they need to to come together long enough to find a
consensus in the Koran or the Prophets writings that they can and should leave
us alone and that they can criticize those fanatics that pervert the Koran (It
is a religion of peace isn't it?) in order to attack us. If Muslims can't see
a way to prevent this scourge conducted in thier name then after the next
attacks on the US the reality will be that all Muslims will be tarred with the
same brush.

There are a billion Muslims and most estimates are that 10% or 20% want to kill
us all and 98% of the rest won't lift a finger to help us. That has to change
or we will change it for them.

John Dupre'