David R., it would appear you still think Saddam Hussein was allied with al qaeda and in some way responsible for 9/11. The 9/11 attack give bush a reason to invade Iraq. It gave him an excuse. As Cheney said, it was an opportunity. And if habeus corpus can be suspended in wartime and this is war, then all those held captive under that suspension can expect to grow old and die in captivity, because this has been described by the Pentagon and others as "the long war" -meaning, essentially, without end. Straight out of 1984 (even the term). And keep in mind that most of those captured in Afghanistan were entirely unaware of the impending 9/11 attack when it happened. Or were just personal enemies of those who turned them in for the reward money, and had nothing to do with al Qaeda. But their families sure will now. Finally, a "war on terror" is literally a war on a tactic. It's like a "war on riflery" or a "war on strafing." It guarantees never running out of enemies. The truth is, it's a war FOR the warmaking industry, as that's who profits. Its also a war FOR capital, as it's the owners of Carlisle Group (such as the bin Laden family), Blackwater, McDonnell-Douglas, Remington Firearms, and so on that profit. And it's a war to separate the financial elite from the masses by creating ever more disparity between the wealthy and the poor, shrinking the middle class so more and more of them are among the poor. Bush said it best speaking to his crowd: "Some people call you the haves and the have mores; I call you my base."

L. Perkins, Amazing. Let me change a couple of names around and see if your phraseology doesn't ring more true: The leaders of the U.S. under Bush believed that the apocalypse is nigh and that it is their duty to sow chaos through the middle east, specifically Iraq, to hasten it's approach. They believe that the Muslim world is essentially the Antichrist and must be destroyed at any cost.