Dems: explain to me...

[Evan]

Hey, don't shoot the messenger, I'm just saying what these guys said:

paraphrase? I read a lot of that, and summaries, and never came to the conclusion that we made them fly planes into our buildings?

I won't paraphrase, I'll quote from the report, available in it's entirety here:
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...Many Americans have wondered "Why do 'they' hate us?" Some also ask, "What can we do to stop these attacks?"

Bin Ladin and al Qaeda have given answers to both these questions. To the first, they say that America had attacked Islam; America is responsible for all conflicts involving Muslims. Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Muslims in its southern islands. America is also held responsible for the governments of Muslim countries, derided by al Qaeda as ÔÇ£your agents.ÔÇØ Bin Ladin has stated flatly, ÔÇ£Our fight against these governments is not separate from our fight against you.ÔÇØ14 These charges found a ready audience among millions of Arabs and Muslims angry at the United States because of issues ranging from Iraq to Palestine to AmericaÔÇÖs support for their countriesÔÇÖ repressive rulers.

Bin LadinÔÇÖs grievance with the United States may have started in reaction to specific U.S. policies but it quickly became far deeper. To the second question, what America could do, al QaedaÔÇÖs answer was that America should abandon the Middle East, convert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture: ÔÇ£It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind.ÔÇØ If the United States did not comply, it would be at war with the Islamic nation, a nation that al QaedaÔÇÖs leaders said ÔÇ£desires death more than you desire life.ÔÇØ15

come on Rex, I know you are smarter than that. A quote from Osama Bin Laden is not a conclusion of the report nor is it meant to be.

The extremists have been using threats and violence as a political weapon for years, example being the elections in Spain last year.
These people are not at war with our policies, they are at war with us and will not stop until we are conqured, this is a fundamental belief of their brand of islam.
But if you truly believe that appeasement will make them happy little muslims, then tell me what europe did, with its huge multiculturalism (and we thought political correctness was bad here!) and moral relativism to spur all these attacks we have been seeing in Europe especially recently? (from educated doctors no less)
Tell me what Scotland did to the muslims for fucks sake!