The most striking thing to me about 9/11 is that, regardless of what people say about the Middle East and our support of Israel or whatever, it came out of left field. There are massacres in other parts of the world and dictators like Saddam Hussein that gast heir own people or whatever but they are results of established international conflicts or internal, civil conflicts. What did they say was his motivation for 9/11? That we sent in troops to protect Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield or whatever? It's pretty surreal, if you think about it. What do these two things have to do with each other?
WTF are you talking about? 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq, it had everything to do with Al Queda and their agenda for the return of Palestine. That is what Osama claimed when he also claimed responsiblity for the attacks. They basically are all about killing us white devils who took some of their holy land and gave it to the Jews. Desert Shield was all about Kuwait not Saudi Arabia. Britain and the US sold chemical weapons to Saddam in the 80s which he used against the Kurds and somewhat against Iran (we were hoping he would use them all on Iran). The Iraq invasion was due to the US thinking that Saddam still had some of these weapons left and was manufacturing new ones (obviously a bad assumption). Bad intelligence and lies ftl. The oil pumped thus far in Iraq post invasion and during the occupation has been sold to companies world wide at the going price and not discounted to the US or Britain. Desert Fox (Clinton) and Shield were similar only in the chemical weapons respect. Shield was more about freeing Kuwait because Iraq invaded it lol. Dictators all over the world don't launch SCUD missles at Tel Aviv to kill Jews, Saddam sure has and the US feared he would give such weapons to terrorists. Basically a twitch overreaction that has been taken WAY too far. I am all about killing Uday though, any guy who rapes women and puts their husbands in Iron Maidens definitely deserves death.
Katrina victims got fucked pretty bad, though most natural disaster victims usually don't fare well (the ones from Andrew and Hugo were fairly fucked just not as many people involved). There are a good portion of the Katrina survivors that moved here and they have started a rash of crime lately. Many former New Orleans residents have been popping up on the news here involved in crime. A few friends of mine which I played FFXI with got their shit utterly destroyed. Although a crapload of money has been spent trying to help, it will never be enough. The area is a fucking bayou lol.
