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"Andrew" <SEE_BELOW_TO_REPLY@bizaveNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:zcasdlalafyc57063041805@bizaveNOSPAM.com...
> In pdx.general Baxter <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
> : "Andrew" <SEE_BELOW_TO_REPLY@bizaveNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
> : news:cddzcasduac66084644041805@bizaveNOSPAM.com...
> :> In pdx.general Name withheld by request <anon5c6c@nyx10.nyx.net> wrote:
> :>
> :> :    I believe that the military actions taken against the Taliban and
Al
> :> :    Qaeda resulted in unnecessary civilian death and destruction. The
> :> :    stated mission to get bin Laden was not accomplished.
> :>
> :> Getting bin Laden was *not* the "stated mission" - the mission was to
> :> eliminate the Al Qaeda threat, as the Taliban were actively supporting
> :> them.
>
> : It wasn't?  Didn't Bush say something about getting bin Laden 'dead or
> : alive'?
>
> No, it wasn't.  Go back and re-read the official statements made at
> the time, not rhetoric made by Bush for a TV news soundbite.

So you're saying that Bush is just a figurehead?

>
> Obviously Bin Laden, as the so-called "mastermind" of the attacks
> (whether this is true or not is still debatable) was a big target of
> the Americans moving into Afghanistan, but he was not himself *the*
> reason for going there.  That is - if the US had "gotten" Bin Laden on
> the 2nd day of the war, we wouldn't have packed up and gone home -
> we'd still be there doing about the same thing, trying to root out the
> rest of Al Qaeda.  Bin Laden didn't fly the airplanes into those
> buildings; a whole lot of people who hate America were involved, and
> Bin Laden is far from the only leader involved.  It's foolish to think
> we are after only one guy over there.

Let's see - the Taliban were doing nothing to us except harboring bin Laden
and his organization -- sounds to me like you're saying that it's
appropriate to go after a criminal's family and assessories while letting
the criminal go free.