Friday, September 15, 2006

It's the Oil, Stupid: U.S. policy in the Middle East and The X factors: Israel and 9/11

Neither of these two factors have any thing to with our policy toward other nations in the Middle East. That is to mean, that we do not support or oppose any nation based on that nation's position on Israel. Further, the nations from which the 9/11 highjackers came have not lost our support and our policy has not changed toward them. We continue to support Saudi Arabia and UAE for instance even though some of the highjackers were born in those countries. In the case of Iraq, the Bush Administration attempted to draw connections between 9/11 and Iraq but after the U.S. invasion, it acknowledged that there was no connection and even denied that the administration had ever made such claims.

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