Originally Posted by SwamP_ThinG

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Why is this continually popping up?
The highjackers were saudis in their majority, and the US army was occupying Saudi Arabia for much longer than they had to. Osama´s beef with the US was the 50.000 thousand US troops stationed in the Saudi desert, not Iraq. Osama and his ilk hated Saddam as much as the americans did. When the US began the first Golf war, he was probably hoping for the US to finish the job, and get rid of him, so that he could begin to set a permanent base of operations there. It was only ti´ll after the Gulf War, when the US refused to leave the bases in Saudi territory that Osama really turned on the US. It was only untill after the Gulf War that the bombings all over started. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. It was all a Saudi affair. Had the US left Saudi Arabia after the war, 9/11 might not have happened. Why did they stay? Why are they still there today? Saddam is gone, so why do they keep their bases there? They now have a whole country transformed into a giant US base, so why do they need the Saudis, knowing that their presence is causing serious trouble, and might ultimatly lead to the downfall of the government?
Iraq might have been the perfect excuse for the US to install themselfs in Saudi land then, but it´s not an excuse now. Nor was it in 2001, on 9/11.
If Osama had any problem with what was happening in Iraq, he would have made those planes fly 10 years earlier.