Atrios has a
link on his site that blows my mind!
Of course, America is now fighting the same people who we armed with RPGs and such, OsamaCo (justified) and chemical weapons, SaddamCo (made shit up to justify that that OIL WAR).
If you haven't seen it, check it out... Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew, lobbied for Islamist banks after 9/11 because Bush was ostensibly cracking down on Islamist banks...
I've seen it all now.
Excerpts below:
Shortly after 9/11, Abramoff signed up as a lobbyist for this consortium of banks that operate according to sharia, or Islamic law. According to the National Journal (Aug 31, 2002), the consortium was created after the attacks as President Bush began cracking down on terrorist financing. Abramoff's job was to spread the word about Islamic banking practices and to refute claims that Islamic banks sheltered money used for terrorist networks. And if anyone needed a good PR man, it was the chairman of the General Council for Islamic Banks, a Saudi businessman named Saleh Abdullah Kamel estimated to be worth in the neighborhood of $ 2.6 billion, who was quickly the subject of intense government scrutiny over his possible ties to terrorist activity.
Damn!