It’s almost funny how the war party and its cheerleaders will say whatever is convenient at the moment to justify their horrendous policies. Before and after 9/11, many of us pointed to the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia as a dangerous provocation. We were mocked by the La-Z-Boy warriors for “blaming the victim.” Now these same apologists for mass murder (when committed by the American military) credit President Bush’s war against Iraq with permitting the withdrawal of the troops from Saudi Arabia—a “major irritant” to Arabs and Muslims.