London Bombers "Obsessed and Angry" with Iraq War

I don't think it's a surprise to many that word is now out that those being accused of the London bombings may have done so because of what they saw as the terrible role of both the US and Great Britain in Iraq. There's also a strange side note here: throughout the world, we're hearing what a thorough and careful investigation the Brits are doing compared to the madness that seemed to reign after the 9-11 attacks here. There remain many unanswered questions about our attacks that we will never know because so much politicking and deep cover was applied to what happened here.

Considering how much Mr. Bush's and Mr. Blair's war is regarded in much of the rest of the world, I don't think we have the luxury of believing that these fellows, if they are indeed guilty, are the only ones who feel such anger at us - and this is very much OUR war - that they may want to strike. This will happen again and all the happy horseshit and incredible amounts of money spent on the bogus "homeland security" effort that seems to be designed to scare us rather than protect us will do nothing to stop it. It should be fairly clear to everyone that it is not our great security efforts that have prevented such an attack - at least not the national effort (I will believe that alert local cops and all probably do reduce the likelihood). But every day, in every way, we see tests to the system that fail miserably. No, the only reason we haven't had such attacks is that those who want to harm us simply haven't struck us yet.

Remember, none of the five thousand plus (we'll never know how many) "people of concern" (which usually means having an Arab or Muslim sounding name) picked up after 9/11 were ever charged (Moussaui was originally picked up before). We just created more hatred by showing such fear and hatred of Muslims and others.

No one wanted to listen to Timothy McVeigh, a saluted Gulf War I veteran who came back and committed the worst act of domestic terrorism we know of (sorry, but I'm no longer so sure 9/11 was a totally "outside" job). Where what he had to say did make it out, we know that some of his strong feelings had to do with the first Gulf War, which was nothing as heinous as the current one.

Now, I'm hardly saying that McVeigh had any justification. I can't conceive of a justification for so many deaths. But what did he have to say? Maybe that would give us a better sense of how others feel and the lengths to which others might be willing to go.