Looks like there is a bunch of stupid people among the pilots also.
ORAC, everything you said can be told about any rich country (the first weapon selling industry is american, the second is Brit, so...)
The most anti-american people are american themselves. Since John Lennon has been killed, more than half a million people were killed by shooting in USA, Bin Laden just killed 3500, americans look more efficient to kill themself than anybody else. Before trying to disarm other countries, disarm your people.
UK is not democracy anymore, 70% of people are against war, Blair still want to go, I call this a dictature.
Funny, Bush wanna bomb Iraq and speak with N Korea.
Stupid, Bin Laden cannot be in NO WAY friend with Saddam. They cannot stand each other, it's obvious that integrist Bin Laden won't support Saddam, a laic, but doesn't seem so evident for some people, maybe a lack of education and knowledge.
Yes France did bad stuff in Africa, so did UK... but who put and supported most of the S.American dictatures, with disappeared, tortured, assassinated... CIA, just to fight the communists, but with same human results, but economical benefits for USA.
USA created the integrists to fight USSR.
When Soviets left, USA supported talibans against Massoud (much more moderate Muslim) , because of deals done about oil. Americans, in July 2001, were still dealing with Talibans about oil transportation through Afghanistan. If there was no 09/11, Talibans should still be there, with a lot of American money, but who would have cared, as long as they can fill up there SUV. So stop giving "democracy" lessons.
................ and so on and so on, and remark I didn't fell in the stupid xenphobia, saying like : big fat hamburger eaters... cause all of this has been decided by politics, and doesn't represent the people