On the other hand, I might admit that Bush is lying about this:
"The President has said on several occasions, "this is not a Religious War."
Our enemy has declared time and again that this "is a Religious War" and that we are the target of that War as long as we do not submit to [their own interpretation of "True"] Islam. We are the Crusaders and deserve to die. We are the cause of the acts against us. We are doomed to lose this war unless we submit to the "Will of Allah" as they preach it. The war is a Jihad, a holy war in defense of Islam, and all who do not follow the narrow interpretation of the Holy Q'ran as interpreted by the Wahabi sect, are infidels and worthy of death.
Who are the infidels? The infidels are Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and any other non-Muslim believes, and any other people, including but not limited to, storekeepers in Iraq who sell alcoholic beverages, western music, short skirts, and anything else that these people determine undermine "true Islamic practice." This war is integral to the beliefs of the Wahabis. The Wahabi sect of Islam is the State Religion of "our friend" Saudi Arabia. This is "a Religious War," and you should have not doubt about it. It is "a Religious War" because the enemy has declared that it is; just as much as it would be a "gun fight" even if only one side had guns.
When the attack against the Spanish commuter train was accomplished, the official statement of responsibility claimed that among the reasons that the attack was perpetrated, was the "expulsion of the Moslems from Spain in 1492" and that they would continue to attack the Spanish until the entire Iberian peninsula was returned to Arab rule. The sooner we come to terms with these ideas, the safer we will be, and the more likely we will be to survive with more of our cherished pre-9/11 lifestyle intact. Be assured that we have already been changed by the war in ways that will irrevocably change our lifestyle from what we remember before 9/11."
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