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America has certainly inspired a lot of the terrorism against us by our foreign policy decisions (many of which the majority of the American public are unaware of), so I suppose Bin Laden was right as far as that goes. However, that doesn't justify killing innocent people (some else America has done a lot of, but I digress). The shock the people reading his letter for the first time display, I think is a good example of how effective American propaganda aimed at Americans really is. All that said, I under no circumstances support use of terrorism in any context and certainly do not feel any sympathy for Bin Laden or his cause. Let's just not forget that our military and foreign policy have helped fuel that cause for decades. Doesn't make the cause or it's methods right, of course, but does point out an area that we Americans desperately need to address.

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