C. W. Bill Young: “I do not think it contributes anything. I said earlier we did not start this war. This war started on February 26, 1993…”

“I do not think it contributes anything. I said earlier we did not start this war. This war started on February 26, 1993, when the World Trade Center was bombed by terrorists, six lives lost. This was further exacerbated on June 25, 1996, when the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia was bombed. Nineteen American airmen living in the towers lost their lives. August 7, 1998, American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed. Two hundred and fifty-nine lives were lost, bombed by terrorists. October 12, 2000, the USS Cole, an American destroyer off the coast of Yemen, bombed, 17 sailors killed and many others injured. Our responses were rather tepid, some investigations, some strong words and threats, but not much action. Then, on September 11, 2002, hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center, 3,000 lives were lost. A hijacked plane crashed into the Pentagon, 189 lives lost. A hijacked plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania, 45 lives lost.”