Fwd: [ cacklinggrackle] Election season means terror alerts

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Lassiter Jonez <ljonez23

Sep 26, 2006 11:52 AM

[cacklinggrackle] Election season means terror alerts

cacklinggrackle

 

 

 

" It is extremely difficult and threatening for US and

UK officials to accept the correlation between their

foreign policies and the rise of terrorists. A

spokesman for the Blair government recently declared:

'Al-Qaida started killing innocent civilians in the

90s. It killed Muslim civilians even before 9/11, and

the attacks on New York and Washington killed over

3,000 people before Iraq. To imply al-Qaida is driven

by an honest disagreement over foreign policy is a

mistake.' Vice President Dick Cheney, on more than one

occasion, has also pointed out that terrorists were

attacking American targets even before 9-11.

 

" The 'reasoning' behind such thinking is odd; it's as

if these esteemed gentlemen believe that there was no

Western foreign policy in the Mideast before September

11, 2001. But of course, even in modern times, there

were decades of awful abuse, including the US

overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953, multiple

bombings of Libya and Iraq, sinking an Iranian ship

and shooting down an Iranian passenger plane, habitual

support of Israel against the Palestinian people, and

much more.

 

" It can't be emphasized too often or too strongly that

terrorism is a political act, it is making a political

statement, a statement that can often be summed up in

a single word: 'retaliation'; terrorism is what people

with bombs but no air force have to resort to. The

Bush and Blair administrations can not admit to the

correlation of terrorism with their policies, but

those opposed to their wars should never allow them to

avoid the issue. "

 

Full article at:

http://www.counterpunch.com/blum09262006.html