you
trucking about
the motive for anti-u_s_ terrorism
and how it is cited over and over again
and there's virtually
no
variation
from what we hear
and whether it was uh... yesterday uh... tower two days ago there were i i should
say we played it day yesterday but
from uh... meet the press this past weekend tom brokaw
even raises this issue
he start off by talking about what little we know at this point
of the motivations of
the boston bombers
but from what has been leaked anti cautions and rightfully so that
we need to take this with a grain of salt because we have no official
reporting on this
but that
so cards are now
has told interrogators that the american wars in iraq and afghanistan edit it and
and afghanistan
motivated him in his brother to carry out the attack
now on a day when george bush
is
going around in performing all sorts of interviews
to promote the opening of his library
and let's talk about what he said to have diane sawyer
on a_b_c_
for stocks are debate is okay
fellini total
i added that park
i mean i did when i did
in historians will alter believe judge those decisions
in terms of the lack of weapons of mass destruction
which are knowledge the museum we talked about this
weasel and artifacts and that was the fact
i'm comfortable in the decision making process
i think the removal of saddam hussein was right decision
for not only our own security prefer giving people a chance to live a free
society
which of course is
completely diluted
both from
white you could anticipate happening and as to what has happened
but history will ultimately decide that
now will be around to see now i don't know what george bush's timeline for
history's
but he's trying to get himself a decent padding
madam how old he is
is seventies at this point
say sixties
so hopefully i'll live until around two hundred and fifty
and uh... histories adapt or my cell yet look
iraq's worry
there must have been because a hundred and seventy five years ago george bush
made a decision
to going to kill
or costner this civilian deaths of over a hundred and thirty thousand hundred
fifty thousand
hundred set who'll okay
what about town
his let history decide
a live until a two hundred and seventy-five years old
as well planned
see my plan is to cry logically freeze myself
so that he sure doesn't start taking
john wong gall
so then it history to a story about uh... regarding your chin
together will think plane down my
people shouldn't wasn't smart
uh... them one who's
uh... figure out what uh... what uh... the history
uh... algorithmic
with appointed by peers is that
what we're seeing now in terms of these terror attacks
continue to be part of his legacy
our extended involvement in afghanistan
occupation
semi occupation at this point of afghanistan
occupation
is part of george bush's legacy
the
continued deaths in iraq
part of george bush's legacy
answer when we hear from
these boston bombers
that their motivation
had to do with iraq and afghanistan
this is on george bush
this is not to
say that uh... president obama does not have some responsibility
in prolonging our engagement afghanistan
but this is on george bush
when the attempted underwear bomber
said quote i had an agreement with at least one person to attack the united
states in retaliation for u_s_ support of israel
and a retaliation the killing of innocent civilian muslim populations in
palestine
anne gaza
and muslim populations in yemen iraq somalia afghanistan to be on muslim
women and children in non-combatants
this is part of george bush's legacy as well
and to be sure it is part of
president obama's legacy of continuing uh... drone strikes
this is
a function of u_s_ policy
when the times where bombers says if the united states did not get out of iraq
afghanistan other countries controlled by muslims
we'll be attacking u_s_
and this is also a continuation not just of a george bush legacy again under
about the drone attacks
emails and other communications
obtained by the u_s_ documents show
how this
times where bomber fatah fis all shahzad transformed from a law-abiding
middle-class naturalized american
into someone who felt compelled to engage in violence as a result of the
wars in afghanistan and iraq
drone attacks israeli violence against palestinians and moslems generally
guantanamo
and torture
carolyn these emails he asked can you tell me a way to save the oppressed
and a way to fight back when rockets were fired at us and muslim glove blood
flows
it and then my c subway bomb
czars e the first afghan american involved in such a plot
on his pleading
guilty
during the spring and summer of two thousand eight i conspired with others
to travel afghanistan to join the taliban and fight against the u_s_
military and its allies
al-qaeda leaders their assets a return to the united states in conducting
martyrdom operations we agree to this plan
i did so because my feelings about what the united states is doing in
afghanistan the fort hood shooter
nidal hassan
part of this disenchantment with his deep in public opposition to the wars in
iraq and afghanistan a stand shared by some medical colleagues bite shaped by
him uh... by a growing religious fervor
greenwald goes on to say to go without saying that the issue here is causation
not justification or even fault
it is nonetheless vital to understand why there are so many people who want to
attack the u_s_ as opposed to say peru or south africa or brazil
or mexico or japan or portugal
it's vital for two separate reasons he says first
he says that some leading american opinion makers love to delude themselves
in this lead others into believing that the u_s_ is attacked
despite the fact that it is peaceful in peace-loving
and freedom giving an innocent
they don't hate us for our freedoms
in other words
as the attackers themselves make clear as they can it's not religious
fanaticism
but rather political grievance that motivates these attacks
religious conviction may make them more willing to fight
but the motive is anger over what is being done by the u_s_ and its allies
to muslims
and muslim countries
and if these countries were not muscle
and they were all christian
they would undoubtedly say the same thing
we certainly see religious fervor
whether it's
judaism
whether it's christianity
whether it's any other religion
drives people
to commit
atrocities
we've seen it historically
we see it uh... with
sadler's attacking uh... muslims in the west bank
we see it with christians
blowing up uh...
abortion clinics
and the analogy here is not that this is causation there's abortion uh... is
legal in this country
therefore it is causing these people to bomb it
and made maybe that is but we have to make a value judgment here
our supreme court has found
abortion to be legal
that does not have the same
compelling directly
as you say that has a more compelling directive
then the idea that we need to launch drone attacks
and now we know not just on
people who we had a
incredibly loose definition of the term present imminent threat to us
but we know by reporting in mcclatchy that week
we keep kill people withdrawn attacks
just as a bargaining chip
just to develop relations with other countries
just to get things from other countries
the second point that uh... greenwald says it's crucial to understand this
causation
is because it's often ask what can we do to stop terrorism
the answer is right in front of our faces we could stop embracing the
policies
in that part of the world which fuel anti-american hatred and triggered the
desire for vengeance and return violence
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