911: Ron Paul vs. The Flat Earth-ers

Here is yet another reason why Ron Paul won the Fox Noise Channel debate[sic]:

First, let's look at the sources for Ron Paul's assertions about why we were attacked on 911.

The 911 Commission Report:

During the 9/11 Commission hearings, Vice Chair Lee Hamilton asked, "What motivated them to do it?" FBI Special Agent James Fitzgerald answered, "I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States." 9/11 Commission testimony June 16, 2004

The 911 Commission Report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg

Statements made by Al-Qaeda members:

According to official U.S. government sources, the September 11 attacks were consistent with the mission statement of al-Qaeda. The overarching motivation for the present al-Qaeda campaign was set out in a 1998 fatwa issued by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abu-Yasir Rifa'i Ahmad Taha, Shaykh Mir Hamzah, and the (Amir of the Jihad Movement in Bangladesh, Fazlur Rahman).[85]

The fatwa lists three "crimes and sins" committed by the Americans:

-U.S. military occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.
-U.S. aggression against the Iraqi people.
-U.S. support of Israel.

The fatwa states that the United States:

-Plunders the resources of the Arabian Peninsula.
-Dictates policy to the rulers of those countries.
-Supports abusive regimes and monarchies in the Middle East, thereby oppressing their people.
-Has military bases and installations upon the Arabian Peninsula, which violates the Muslim holy land, in order to threaten neighboring Muslim countries.
-Intends thereby to create disunion between Muslim states, thus weakening them as a political force.
-Supports Israel, and wishes to divert international attention from (and tacitly maintain) the occupation of Palestine

OBL statement:

President Bush says, "They hate ... a democratically elected government. ... They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." (President George W. Bush) Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People Bin Laden says, "the White House hiding the Truth ... the reality is that we are striking them because of their evil and injustice in the whole of the Islamic World, especially in Iraq and Palestine and their occupation of the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries (Arabian Peninsula)."

One of countless CIA statements:

Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief Michael Scheuer has bluntly stated that politicians are lying to the American people about the terrorists' motives, "The politicians really are at great fault for not squaring with the American people. We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live. And there's a huge burden of guilt to be laid at Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, both parties for simply lying to the American people." Lou Dobbs CNN

The list goes on and on, including a logical assimilation to what The Founding Fathers and The Constitution warned us against. You know — things like Interventionalism, Nation-Building, Aggressive Wars and Occupations, Foreign Corporate Alliances, Ron Paul's irrefutable historic references to the brutal Shah dictatotship we installed, the CIA "Blowback" effect, and so on... and so forth.

Now, let's look at the sources sited by the FOX/corporate media/neocon/"Christian Zionist" movement: