by Charley Reese
AntiWar.com
July 9, 2005

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush went into their standard routine after the London bombings. This was an attack against civilization and all civilized nations, they said.

That's bosh and hokum, and it does a disservice to the people. The first step always in solving any problem is to define the problem correctly. There are no terrorists anywhere in the world whose goal is the destruction of civilization, Western or otherwise.

The terrorist attacks against the U.S., Great Britain and Spain are motivated exclusively by Western policies toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the presence of Western military forces in Islamic countries. Al-Qaeda, the ideological source of these attacks, has always been crystal-clear and specific about its reasons for declaring war against the United States. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=6596

Dennis Kucinich web site has a good article "Don't Give Up on Patriotism, the Flag, or Each Other." See it at http://www.kucinich.us/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3429 or http://tinyurl.com/a8qyv


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