if we want to PREVENT terrorism

Fouro,

There has been massive fraud on the part of many people in influential positions in order to suppress the motives for 9/11.

Admitting to the troops in Saudi Arabia as one of the motives comes easily while another one of the motives, one just as clearly listed, doesn't get mentioned too easily.

In the few places it even get to be mentioned, the person pointing it out gets insinuations of "anti-Semitism."

I suggest you look at the facts, the ABC movie "The Path to 9-11" was not the only case in which the motives are omitted or lied about in the service of the Israel agenda.

Thomas Friedman covers up what bin Laden has said for years about Palestine. Friedman claims, "the fact is that bin Laden never focused on this issue. He only started talking about "Palestine" after September 11." What Friedman has written is a flat out lie. To give just one example that disproves what Friedman wrote: "Your position against Muslims in Palestine is despicable and disgraceful. America has no shame. " - Osama bin Laden May 1998

You seem to have a notion that the US government can do no wrong. Fact is, it serves the interests of big business and powerful groups. Look at Enron, we had people willing to subject fellow Americans to blackouts, we had businessmen willing to lie and screw over Americans.

You can't let this notion of "America" obscure the fact that we are really talking about policies that are implemented on behalf of powerful businesses and groups. What they are doing to the people in the Middle East is no more noble than what was done to Americans, in fact it is much worse.

Don't try to play off what ABC did as some inadvertent mistake. I gave you a second very dramatic example which showed the same INTENTIONAL SUPPRESSION of the MAIN MOTIVE for the 9/11 attacks.

Regarding a report that was supposed to serve the interests of the American people, we had 9/11 commissioners more interested in serving special interests, commissioners who "REJECTED mentioning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the report" because they worried "listing U.S. support for Israel as a root cause of al Qaeda's opposition to the United States indicated that the United States should reassess that policy."

US officials have done enough wrong to the Middle East including literally shipping Korans and weapons while encouraging Jihad and also of partnering with Saddam Hussein in war crimes. You are acting like the US officials who make these policies are moral agents, they are not. If you actually look at the evidence you will see that. Doesn't the fact that they would have the audacity to lie to us about why we were attacked give you a clue that something really dirty is going on? You can't leap to the copout of "Israel-bait" to avoid dealing with the ugly realities. Bottom line, if we want to PREVENT terrorism, we make sure our government respects the human rights of the people in the Middle East as we expect our rights to be respected. When the imminent domain decision was made, I noticed that opponents of it were not denounced as "anti-American" or "anti-Semitic". Lets use the same logic and realize that not all polices are produced by angels. Given how many Americans are willing to mistreat other Americans, you need to wake from the dream that US officials have been implementing policies that are just and moral. We could actually PREVENT terrorist attacks and also save billions of dollars.