[switched to DD-MM-YY format in name] *Why did we invade?

"The aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden... to be put on trial, to d estroy... Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported and gave sa fe harbor to it. The George W. Bush administration stated that, as policy, it wo uld not distinguish between terrorist organizations and nations or governments t hat harbored them." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present) *What did Osama bin Laden do? / Why did he do it? "Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troop s in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives for the attacks." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks *Why attack civilians in office buildings then? Why not just defend? Conventional warfare would never work against the military beast that is the Uni ted States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare *Though, he did try: "The 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998... The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arriva l American forces in Saudi Arabia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_U.S._embassy_bombings *Instead of considering possibilities of why these attacks happened, the U.S. me rely retaliated. In thirteen days. Against people who had nothing to do with it. "The August 1998 bombings of Afghanistan and Sudan... The attack was in retaliat ion for the bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania..." "Officials later acknowledged, however, that "the evidence that prompted Preside nt Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as fi rst portrayed." Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the pl ant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the A mericans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1990s... The Al-Shifa factory was Sudan's primary source of pharmaceutica ls, covering the majority of the Sudanese market. Werner Daum (Germany's ambassa dor to Sudan)... estimated that the attack 'probably led to tens of thousands of deaths' of Sudanese civilians." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Afghanistan_and_Sudan_(Au gust_1998) *In addition to those military actions, there were multiple sanctions imposed in 1998. "It caused dire hardship to the people of Afghanistan under the Taliban regime a t a time when they were heavily reliant on international food aid, while failing to satisfy any of its demands... They were warmly welcomed by the ambassador fo r Afghanistan who was not a representative of the Taliban regime that had conque red 80% of his country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1267

Epilogue: *Occupying culturally similar countries like Britain or other countries in Europ e may not be a problem to the people living there, but occupying countries in th e Middle East is like stationing non-Caucasoid policemen to patrol a known KKK-f riendly camp or town. The Klansmen are bound to get riled up. It doesn't make wh atever actions that they do morally or legally right, but the people that statio ned the non-Caucasoid officers there are practically asking for it. "Osama bin Laden first engaged in violence because of the occupation of a Muslim country by an infidel superpower. He did not fight the Russians in Afghanistan be

cause he hated their values or their freedoms, but because they had occupied a M uslim land." http://hir.harvard.edu/religion/lifting-the-veil?page=0,1

"Ron Paul Predicted 9/11" http://youtu.be/kVws73mZvXM Text from video: http://www.religioscope.com/info/doc/jihad/ubl_int_2.htm