Sunday, July 02, 2006
Axis and Allies?
Guess what? It's been ten years (June 25, 1996) since Khobar Towers was bombed in Saudi Arabia and 19 airmen died and 372 other GIs wounded. The Saudi government wouldn't allow barricades to be moved farther away from the buildings. 14 men were finally indicted for the attack, most of whom were Saudi citizens. By the way, four years prior to that I was living in a building almost next door to the one that was attacked. It always bothered me that I could look out the window and across the street (about 20 - 30 feet) was a civilian parking lot. Oh, and don't get the idea that I was doing anything heroic over there. I basically sat in an office for that time waiting for something to happen (which I'm thankful never did).
Five years after Khobar, another tower was attacked, this time in New York. This time there was considerably more deaths and damage. However, again this time, most of the perpetrators were Saudi citizens. And guess what? Osama bin Ladin is Saudi born.
So after all this we invade Iraq which had nothing to do with any of that. They did invade Kuwait after the USofA told Saddam we could care less what happened over there. A few years later we didn't find any nukes (you know the same nukes Iraq and North Korea and Pakistan and India claim) and we didn't find bugs & gas. It's nice to know we know who are enemies are.
