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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:20:25 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:

>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.

>--Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

Really? That's amazing.