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In pdx.general Baxter <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
: "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?

Do you secretly love Bush?

:> 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.

It sounds to me like you really love Osama and his pals.  Maybe you
should go join up with them?

Andrew
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