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On 2007-07-15 19:47:25 -0400, Al Key <alkeeeee@teranews.com> said:

> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:53:04 -0500, "ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> wrote:
> 
>> In news:f7e7dj$h3s$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com,
>> Joeseph P. Blow <jpblow@gmail.com>spewed forth:
>>>> 
>>>> What IS the Islamic Terrorist's "cause", sweet lips?
>>> 
>>> Getting the US off their land, cunt lips.
>> 
>> So you believe that if we leave Iraq/Afganistan the terrorists we stop?
>> Surely you are not that stupid.
> 
> Though it's difficult to think that anyone COULD be that stupid Blow
> Boy has proven over and over again that he IS.
> 
>> They want ALL infidels DEAD, not off their land.
> 
> He hasn't got his head rag around that fact yet.

In May 2001 the Bush administration gave the Taliban government of 
Afghanistan the sum of 43 million dollars. Small change, of course, to 
a government that considers that amount to be a reasonable annual take 
for the CEO of any Bush-supporting company, but it is a tidy bit of 
cash to a bunch of religious fanatics whose idea of adding to world 
culture was destroying ancient and awe-inspiring rock statues.

Two of the enormous artifacts the Taliban reduced to rubble were over 
1500 years old, and they blithely blew them up in March 2001. And in 
May they were given 43 million green ones by Washington. In effect the 
Bush administration said 'Well done, Taliban : you are being told by 
most of the world, and even by fellow Muslims, that your destruction of 
history is despicable, but never mind, you bunch of demented zealots, 
here's some US pocket fluff to help you buy some more dynamite'.

And it is astounding that at the time of Bush's charitable handout it 
was known by Washington (see the 9/11 Commission Report) that al 
Qaeda's leaders, the people who had already given the world the suicide 
bombing of the USS Cole in Aden harbor and many other maniacal but 
well-planned atrocities that had killed scores of Americans, were being 
given sanctuary by the brutal, ignorant and barely-literate Taliban.

This instance of Bush's bizarre generosity to the Taliban has been 
sucked into the black hole of non-memory because everyone except Robert 
Scheer of the LA Times just put it out of their minds. But it is a fact 
-- stand by for a not very funny laugh -- that the 43 million dollars 
were handed over because Washington considered the Taliban to be 
successful in reducing drug production.
-- 
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in 
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after 
all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it 
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a 
democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist 
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to 
the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL 
THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of 
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY 
COUNTRY."
�
--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials