George Bush goes to great lengths to work the phrase “September 11th” into just about everything he says to justify our continued occupation of the nation we invaded in 2003, as does just about everyone on his staff and virtually all the America-hating talking heads on the right. So this would be a good time to look back on just why 9/11 occurred (and no, not because “they hate our freedoms”). In a very cogent entry over at DailyKos some time back, a post which has unfortunately fallen off the site for some reason, the poster made the following observation.

Bin Laden has been very explicit: He wants a return of the Caliphate. In other words, he wants a re-unified Islamic nation stretching from Indonesia to Morocco, governed by leaders faithful to the Koran.

Think about that when you take a look at the new Iraqi constitution. As the New York Times states, and as virtually everyone with a brain on both sides of the issue admits:

Americans continue dying in Iraq, but their mission creeps steadily downward. The nonexistent weapons of mass destruction dropped out of the picture long ago. Now the United States seems ready to walk away from its fine words about helping the Iraqis create a beacon of freedom, harmony and democracy for the Middle East. All that remains to be seen is whether the White House has become so desperate for an excuse to declare victory that it will settle for an Iranian-style Shiite theocracy. [emphasis mine]

How about that. Bin Laden has made it clear that he wants a unified Islamic Nation across the Globe and now the bush administration has delivered him Iraq as it has spent the lives of over 1800 American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, billions of dollars, ruined our military, squandered our good name around the world, opened up a country to bin Laden where he was previously unable to operate or make any headway among the population, a gift delivered on a silver platter. He got it all softened up, angry at the West, radicalized into fundamentalist extremism, neatly split up into feuding factions perfectly designed to inflame passions all over the region The Kurds in Turkey, making the Turks more than a little nervous, the Shi-ites in Iran who now look longingly across the border as their former sworn enemy is turned into the very fundamentalist state they’d have created had they won the Iran/Iraq was in the first place, the Sunnis and former Baathists who have nowhere to go and nothing to lose by increasing the ferocity of the insurgency, all create the perfect environment for bin Laden’s dream to come true.

And it couldn’t have happened without little george, rummy, cheney and the gang that couldn’t think straight. Way to go team.

So by all means let’s remember September 11th, and when we look at the situation developing in Iraq we have to wonder why these guys have done this, why they’ve strengthened the hand of the foe they consider our mortal enemy. Kind of makes you wonder just who really hates America doesn’t it?