Because we're there

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BG: What just a dog-gone second. Even though this post criticizes Bush, there is much to dispute about the "facts."

No, what bin Laden is, and what he has done is not beyond doubt. In fact, it is most likely that the "quote" below is not from bin Laden, whose broadcasts have been faked for propaganda reasons.

.... That bin Laden is a murdering theocrat is beyond doubt. Bush, despite the sneers of many, is not some callous adventurer. But Bush and bin Laden share the same Manichean vision of a world in which one side is indisputably good, the other unspeakably bad. Bin Laden dispatched his words from some cave to an Islamic world that has been raised on a hatred of the West. To understand the enemy, and why we are in this pickle, keep in mind that Bush is convinced we're fighting bin Laden in Iraq. Much of the Islamic world believes we're battling not with Hussein's remnants, but Islam itself.
To resell a war he sold us on the basis of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, Bush needed to reduce the Iraqi insurgency to a moral abstraction.
'They fight because they know that the survival of their hateful ideology is at stake,' he said.
Granted, they probably are fighting from a standpoint of ideology. From what standpoint do we fight? Our ideology, at least as we like to pretend it, is that of a democratic republic that accepts personal freedom and general tolerance.
So far, we haven't shown much of it in the war on terror, and we have the unsavory friends to prove it.
It no longer bears repeating that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were citizens of Saudi Arabia and products of its Jew-hating, West-vilifying educational system. It no longer bears repeating because George W. Bush, product of a class-fixated, oil-rich political dynasty either does not hear or refuses to comprehend this connection.
In the months after the Twin Towers fell, Bush invited a delegation from the nation that bred the killers of 3,000 Americans to the ranch in Crawford for barbecue. That's showing them.
Bush saved his most salient argument for the end of his speech, when he suggested that we are fighting terrorists from around "...