Atrocities have been committed by Americans in Iraq. I do not condone the idiots who are killing their own fellow Iraqis, screwing up the attempts to rebuild the country's infrastructure, and this kind of thing. Yes, the architects of 9/11 were filled with hate. But the U.S. has done all sorts of wonderful things in the Middle East, including overthrowing a democratically elected government in Iran. The U.S. wanted its good buddy the Shah to run Iran instead, so they orchestrated his return to power. The Shah maintained a savage secret police force called SAVAK. The country was about as democratic as the Soviet Union was. You get the idea. The U.S. has done some terrible things in the Middle East and elsewhere. There's no use in denying this stuff happened. We're still paying for it. If we hadn't pulled this dirty trick in Iran off, that country would be a democracy, not a theocracy.
