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> 1. What happened to the pilot who dropped the bomb on the Canadian
Soldiers?

i don't know... though it does warrant investigation...

> 2. With the embargo on Iraq, does the US still buy oil from them?

yes, they definitely do! though instead of money, they pay for the oil with
food: agricultural goods which the US had to get rid of one way or
another... ;-)

> 3. What has Iraq "supposed" to have done to Warrant some mass destruction
of
> their cities and murder of their civilians?

they invaded kuwait... this is the main reason... other reasons which have
been mentioned, but were ignored completely until after the gulf war,
include using chemical warfare against the kurdish minority which live in
the north during the war with Iran: the US labels this "using chemical
weapons against it's own people" though i do agree this was a big atrocity,
the US has not done anything to help the Kurdish minority in the North...
the same sanction which affect bagdad effect the kurdish minority too.. a
total of 1 million people have died due to the economic sanctions... not to
mention the health problems which are and will be caused in the future by
the use of DU, depleted uranium, weapons used in the gulf war...

> 4. Where was the overwhelming proof that  "Osama" was behind 9/11, Even if
> it was Osama, why was Afghanistan Attacked?

because "Osama" was living in Afganistan at the time and making threats on
the lives of US citizens... he had already bombed 2 US embassies and killed
a good number of people, something he admitted he did... the US ended up
unleashing a good amount of cruise missles at Afganistan for retribution,
but failed to kill Osama who was suppose to be the target of the attack...
after 9.11, the taleban were unwilling to give him up to be tried by US
courts... they they did agree to try him within afganistan if the US had an
conclusive proof... the US refused the offer and attacked Afganistan...
there have been over 3,000 confirmed civilian fatalities in Afganistan since
the invasion began: a good number for revenge... don't you think? what i
would like to see is a law suit filed on the behalf of all those innocent
civilians killed in Afganistan against the american government... or may be
china could file suit against the couple which were killed in Yugoslavia
when america attacked the country...?


> 5. Do you think that there is any connection with all the recent
"corporate
> accounting scams" to the 9/11 as well?

i seriously doubt it... though the weak economy which would've occured
anyway has helped expose the economic problems within these companies...

> 6. Weren't Iraq, and Afghanistan allies of the states in the 80's?

Yes, Iraq and Afganistan were both allies of the US in the 80s for two
different reasons...

Afganistan was partner in fighting the soviets which invaded and basically
due to the CiA afganistan became the soviets personal vietnam... president
regan actually applauded the efforts of the "mujadeen" in the fighting
against the soviets... during this time the CiA also trained a contact
operative in Afganistan named Osama bin Laden... Osama helped the CiA in
distributing goods to the "mudjadeen"... after the war was won these
gorillas were fuedalistic in mentality and basically started fighting
against each other for the control of the country... excessive lawlessness
broke out all over the country... the CiA and the government of Pakistan
then helped train the Taleban to finally end this fuedalistic mess and bring
relative peace to the country: all while protecting the interests in the
region of both of these countries... the plan failed because the Taleban
were not easily manuverable by either government... the started practicing a
very old version, or as they call it "pure", version of islam and their
political policies were affected by this practise... slowly they became more
and more anti-social, or as they called it "anti-western"... they started
training militants to fight in Chechnya and Kashmir to supposedly defend
thier people, the Muslims, against countries which threatened them... they
also sheltered militants such as "Osama"... the argument that proceeded
blamed them for training some of the militants which ended up caused 9.11...


Iraq was another great ally of the US and this was mainly because it was a
foe of Iran... though the underlying fact was the US was playing each
country against the the other and providing weapons to both of them to kill
each other: i.e. the Iran Contra Affair... When Saddam deicided to invade
Kuwait, he thought that the US was an ally and would not make good on its
threat to attack Iraq for invading Kuwait... Iraq was wrong... Soon after
Kuwait was invaded the US was sucessful in passing a resolution against iraq
in the UN... in the short war that followed Iraq lost extremely quickly...
the thing to note though is saddam did not use any chemical or biological
warfare weapons in the gulf war though he had them, due to the fear of
getting nuked by israel or the US... Today, over 90% of the oil companies
that operate in Kuwait are property of the US... Saudi Arabia has paid
millions in compensation for protection against Iraq... Much in terms of
chemical and biological weapons was destroyed by UN inspectors when they
came to iraq to disarm it... over the next 8 years the powers, mainly
britian and the us, refused to accept that iraq had destroyed all of their
supply: a claim which is probably true... saddam decided that they would
never let his country go free no matter how much stuff he destroyed... so he
ended the inspections... operation desert fox followed and ended which was
meant to slow down the development of nuclear weapons... now a policy of
containment was used to keep iraq in check... since 9.11 the attitude has
changed and now they have just decided to get rid of saddam... and i think
in the war which is soon to follow, less than 6 months... they will... the
only piece of good news is that the US has decided to replace saddam's
government with democratic government... how democratic that government will
be, we'll wait and see.. the underlying reason for containing saddam seems
to be two-fold... first to protect the american companies which have rights
to use the oil reserves in the middle east and second to protect israel from
saddam, who could possibly develop and arsenal to put israel under actual
threat...

i can back up most of what i said with credible proof if you want...just
tell me what you need proved...

-jS
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"Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits." - Satchel Paige