"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Tim W"
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , "Tim W"
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A thought for you. Bin Laden and the terrorists who committed those
awful
crimes can only have wanted one thing - to provoke a war.

Nonsense. Bin Laden's own public statements demonstrate a considerably
different objective.

Okay Doug, What was the intention of the 9/11 terrorists? Do you seriously
think they weren't trying to provoke a war?

The nonsense is your own. Bin Laden was concerned with Israel-Palestine
and
with foreign (US) troops in Saudi Arabia. When Bush characterised 9/11 as
an
attack on freedom he was just plain wrong. Bin Laden wanted to draw the US
into a Middle Eastern War which they could not win.

This is completely false. Bin Laden wanted the U.S. to get out of Saudi
Arabia, and stop supporting Israel.

Exactly, by defeating the US in the Middle East. How else could it be done?

The US government
owed it to every one of those innocent dead not to do what the
terrorists
wanted. They have all been betrayed, bigtime.

To suggest that we "owe" it to our innocent dead to not retaliate, to
fail to
avenge their deaths, and have "betrayed" them by doing so is, to put it
mildly, bizarre.

Revenge is not the business of a civilised government,

Defense of our citizens is a constitutional responsibility of the
government
of the United States.

Defence and revenge are very different things.

tim w