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Let\u2019s not forget the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro<\/a>, during which Abu Nidal murdered Leon Klinghoffer \u2013 before taking refuge in Iraq<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget the 1983 Bombing of American troops<\/a>, in their barracks, in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget the taking of American hostages, in 1979<\/a>, held for 444 days.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget bin Laden\u2019s own words in 2001<\/a> rallying against the West and trying to convince the world that our efforts in Afghanistan were unjust because, \u201cthere is no evidence of the involvement of the people of Afghanistan in what happened in America.\u201d (H\/T Glenn Reynolds<\/a>) Rather like those insisting the same about Iraq, today.<\/p>\n

Tell us some more how terrorists are only responding to regime change in Iraq, and how if only we would obey the \u201cinsurgents\u201d there and leave Iraq, all of this would end. Tell us all about it with your tired, phoney, apologetics<\/a>. Tell us how terror that has existed for decades is all the fault of George W. Bush and his poodle Blair.<\/p>\n

Trey Jackson has video of John Howard spelling it out<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"