Mickey Z

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

News Flash: Here's why "they" hate "us"

In 1997, Osama Bin Laden told CNN: “We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is unjust, criminal, and tyrannical. it has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous, and criminal, whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation ... And we believe the US is directly responsible for those who were killed in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq. The mention of the US reminds us before everything else of those innocent children who were dismembered, their heads and arms cut off in the recent explosion that took place in Qana [in Lebanon]. This US government abandoned even humanitarian feelings by these hideous crimes. It transgressed all bounds and behaved in a way not witnessed before by any power or any imperialist power in the world ... The US is responsible for any reaction, because it extended its war against troops to civilians. This is what we say. As for ... the American people, they are not exonerated from responsibility, because they chose this government and voted for it despite their knowledge of its crimes (emphasis added) in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and in other places, and its support of its client regimes who filled their prisons with our best children and scholars.”

Remember: As long as the U.S. calls the shots, this will never end: