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When will those on the self-righteous, intellectually pretentious and condescending Left ever face the fact that accusations are not proof, and allegations are not unquestionable evidence? Do they really know the distinction between subjective and objective? Why is it that, whenever those on the Left rant about the "roots of terrorism", they see those roots everywhere but in the twisted minds and ideologies of the terrorists themselves?
The idea that Al-Qaeda does not exist is not just "heretical", it is typical of the self-serving, cancerous, opportunistic propaganda of the crypto-Marxist Left, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone who is capable of studying history in an objective fashion.
There are, obviously, a lot of unanswered questions about various elements of Jihadist terrorism, and about the activities of the former Baathist regime of Iraq. It may be decades before a great deal of other important pieces of the puzzle are discovered. That is simply the way historical discovery works. What is not reasonably questionable is the guilt of Osama bin Laden himself, in the support, implementation and financing of the 9-11 attacks. He is shown on captured tapes, admitting those deeds, proudly. Are those who want to demonize George Bush now going to come up with another in their long line of anti-American, anti-business, anti-Capitalist conspiracy theories to explain away those tapes? Perhaps they were just forgeries! That's it! A Hollywood actor was standing in for Osama! Everyone knows there were no Jews killed in the 9-11 attacks, right? When Iraqi children, eating candy given to them by American soldiers, are targeted DELIBERATELY by Fascist terrorists who boast about how they want to put women back in their proper place in the 8th century, it's all a part of a diabolical Clausewitzian plan of American deception to steal Iraq's oil. Right?
Even though no American is currently in charge of Iraq's oil revenues, even though no American is currently in charge of the new and fractious U.N.-approved Iraqi government or its oil ministry, any robbery that happens, or any beheading of an innocent by those who want to impose a medieval theocracy, or re-impose a Fascist mafia on Iraq, can be blamed on an American corporate conspiracy or those in the Iraqi government because, after all, even though that diverse and contentious elected government is saturated with many people who fought bravely against Saddam Hussein, they are just our "puppets". Right?
