President Bush was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks on his own country

"So you admitted the CIA was instrumental in training about Al-Qaeda, yet it seems you're suggesting the CIA isn't responsible for their actions. If a child is trained to be violent, is the parent at least at some fault when the child exhibits violent behavior?" A parent raising a child is completely separate from a Central Intelligence Agency providing funds and training to combat a force that is taking over a nation. That analogy has no correlation with wartime efforts whatsoever. Al Qaeda is violent for what they believe in. Radical Islam has existed for thousands of years and is the source for these holy wars currently going on in the middle east. "Radical Islam is a militant, politically activist ideology whose ultimate goal is to create a worldwide community, or caliphate, of Muslim believers. Determined to achieve this new world order by any means necessary, including violence and mass murder, radical Islam is characterized by its contempt for the beliefs, practices, and symbols of other religious traditions. This intolerant creed is cited by Islamists as the philosophical justification for their terrorism." http://www.discoverthenetworks.org... Radical Islam was not created by the CIA. My opponent seems to have failed to read what I posted in my argument. Al Qaeda was split after the Afghanistan war. They merged with other top jihad groups. They completely disaligned themselves with the US and other western countries. After the merge was a birthplace for this new ideology that any government not enforcing strict sharia law should be eliminated and replaced with a sectarian government. http://www.infoplease.com... As most of us know. WMDs were one of the primary reasons upon entering and invading Iraq. This resulted because of failed diplomacy attempts conducted by the UN and other coalition nations that were soon going to be involved in the invasion of Iraq. Iraq was required by the UN to file a weapons declaration that was 12,000 pages long. In December 2002 Iraq had failed to comply and were missing a few of his declarations. In January of 2003 UN inspectors found several empty chemical warheads. Yes, chemical weapons are WMDs. As the war went on past 2003 US and other coalition forces found small traces of chemical weapons. So yes, the U.S did find WMDs. They recovered small amounts of chemical weapons throughout the years. http://nypost.com... http://www.cnn.com... I don"t want to forget mentioning this, but a year after the invasion NATO got involved, involving 30 countries. Adding to the four countries that conducted Operation Iraqi freedom. http://www.nato.int... "Did you know that Saddam had almost nothing to do with 9/11? He just happened to refuse to use the U.S. Dollar for oil trading. Which means less money for the U.S? How do you fix that? Kill him and install a favorable government of course." Yes I am aware, and so as the rest of the world, however, we did believe that Saddam has ties to Al Qaeda. So we fix that predicament by invading Iraq, capturing Saddam then sticking around for 10 years? You do realize we spent around 1 trillion dollars on training Iraqi forces and Iraqs infrastructure? We spent over 1.5 trillion dollars on both wars. "You can deny all you want. But the actions of the U.S. and the widely available information will ALWAYS prove you wrong." I can articulate the same for you. It can go both ways, considering that there is still no evidence that bush conducted these attacks. "There was plenty of financial motivation to commit a false-flag on our country. Sadly for some people, money > human life." Financial motivation huh? The cost to repair and cleanup 9/11 was damaging to our nations debt and economy.The loss of four commercial jets valued at $385 million. Replacement cost and destruction of World Trade Centers valued at $4.5 billion. Damage to the Pentagon is up to $1 billion. Clean up costs alone is $1.3 billion. Property and infrastructure damage is around $13 billion. Federal emergency funds valued at $40 billion. Losses to New York(jobs,taxes, infrastructure, cleaning) $93 billion. Loss of insurance industry and air traffic revenue of $50 billion. Fall of global markets, of course, incalculable. Oh, and not to forget thousands of innocent lives. Irreplacable. http://www.iags.org... The risks outweigh the positives. We invaded two countries just so one corporation can make a profit? Just doesn't make sense. Just like a lot of theories I hear out there.