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For decades the Palestinian-Arab propaganda machine has attempted to promulgate a number of myths about terrorism. In the latter half of the last ten years, they have been joined by a plethora of desperate liberal bush bashers (DLBB) who cannot stand the fact that the War on Terror is not only a war for our very survival, but that the chief proponent is not among the liberal elite and is embodied by that irritating Texan George Bush.

The DLBB are not limited to the U.S. Democratic party however, and while many liberals take heart in the fact that the most socialist nations in the world becry George Bush as "a cowboy", the fact remains that the mythical fiction of terrorism, and especially that of Islamic based terrorism cannot be supported by fact or testimony, reason or logic other than "If we don't go, they will not come!". Of course 9/11 proved irrefutably that ignoring and letting others fight the war on terror is not only foolhardy, but deadly.

Below MILNET has attempted to list the most popular of the myths as well as listed a few salient facts about International Terrorism. For a full briefing on International Terrorism, see the July MILNET Briefing, Terrorism 101, a Tutorial on International Terrorism Today 101 [http://www.milnet.com/Terrori sm-101.html].

Myth: American Imperialism and Abuse of Power in the Middle East is the cause of anti-American attacks by Islamic Terrorists

Truth: While American power visa-vis "interference" in Middle Eastern affairs is certainly a factor in Islamic Terrorists hatred of the U.S., it is more likely that the U.S. exportation of freedoms such as elections, human (especially woman's rights), and anti-dictator positions that make the U.S. a threat to Jihadists. Osama bin Laden has repeatedly said the U.S. must be destroyed and replaced with a government governed by his Salafiyyic/Wahhabist version of Islamic Law.

Myth: The current battle between western nations and Islam is because of western revivial of The Crusades - Christianity vs. Islam

Truth: Few scholars (if any) support this view. However, many do believe that it is the very nature of the puritanical Islam beliefs of the Salafiyya that drives Islamic extremists to preach against the non-Salafiyya aligned and which eventually leads to recruits into Militant Islamic Jihadist groups that then become enamored with, and through attacks, attached to or associated with Al Qaeda.

Myth: British Imperialism and Abuse of Power in the Middle East is the cause of anti-American

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