I'm going to say this very slowly and carefully...

We were not bombing civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else when New York and Washington were attacked. Try and slam that single fact into your worldview.

This is bin Laden's declaration of war, made in 1996. Roll that date around in your head for a while. See if it finds a pocket.

Read it. Note that he isn't just talking about Saudi Arabia. For once in your life, THINK.

Almost 3,000 people died in the U.S. simply because we had Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia supporting the U.N.'s No-Fly-Zones. Died in an operation planned before Bush was even elected. If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else. Radical Islam cannot stand the existence of anything other than Radical Islam.

Try and get past the Bush Derangement Syndrome, and the reflexive liberal tendency to blame everything on your own nation and culture first. I can't believe that you simply skated over the huge influence Radical Islam has even in U.S. mosques. Look at what you're dealing with. This is about more than election politics.