FFS, because YOU say it was not the reason? I'll ask you again, back up your argument with facts or **** off
An article based on hypothetical reasons? Did you read the "what ifs" and "perhaps" in that article? Go on, **** off you boring ****
first thing i found on google tbh but as you said, you cant just say that and its as effective and truthful as thta snippet you produced
So where are we now with this thread? Is the issue with the Invasion of Iraq? The Afghan war? Saddam Hussein being booted out? What seems to be the problem? The Taliban and Hussein ruled Afghanistan and Iraq with an iron grip, killing many, many people, is it not a good thing that forces went in and removed them?
1. “Taliban are terrorists.” In 1989, at the end of Soviet occupation, Afghanistan fell into anarchy, civil war, and crime. Rape was endemic. A village prayer leader, Mullah Omar, armed a group of religious students (talibs). He set about fighting banditry, rape and drug dealing, imposing order based on traditional tribal and religious law. Taliban were not 9/11-style terrorists, but a religious, anti-Communist movement drawn from the Pushtun tribe. Most of the Taliban's energies went to fighting Afghan Communists. Iran, India and Russia openly backed the Communists — rechristened, Northern Alliance. Most of the so-called “terrorist camps” in Afghanistan were in fact bases used by Muslim volunteers who had come to fight Communists there and in Central Asia. The Taliban shut down production of opium and heroin. But its backwards leaders proved themselves to be harsh and incompetent. Female education was temporarily banned because Communists had infiltrated the nation in the 1970's through the school system. The Taliban oppressed minority Hazaras, and blew up Buddhist idols. But Washington gave millions in aid to the Taliban until four months before 9/11. The U.S. once considered using them and Osama bin Laden's 300 al-Qaida followers to stir revolt in China's western Muslim regions, and in Russian-dominated Central Asia. The U.S. cut off aid after the Taliban refused to give a key strategic pipeline deal to a U.S. oil firm. The Taliban's leaders knew nothing of 9/11, a plot actually hatched in Germany. When the U.S. demanded bin Laden be handed over, the Taliban refused: He was a guest and national hero, wounded six times in the anti-Soviet struggle. The Taliban offered to send bin Laden to an international tribunal once the U.S. presented evidence of his involvement. Washington refused and invaded, blaming the Taliban for 9/11. Unable to withstand U.S. power, Mullah Omar ordered his men to blend back into the Pushtun population and wage low-grade guerrilla war against the invaders. Other movements, like Hizbi-Islami, joined in battling foreign occupation. The US and allies unwisely chose to pick a fight with fierce tribesmen whose only desire is to end foreign occupation and be left alone. 2. “We are defending 'democracy' in Afghanistan.” This is pure propaganda. The U.S. installed the puppet Karzai regime in Kabul, then held an election even more rigged than the ones run by the Soviets. The U.S. spends hundreds of millions to bribe Afghan warlords, most of whom are up to their turbans in drug dealing. Since the Taliban's overthrow, opium production is up 90%. The U.S.-NATO ruled narco-state Afghanistan now produces most of the world's heroin. Karazi's regime would collapse the moment foreign troops leave. Besides drug lords, the U.S., Canada and NATO are also in league with resurgent Communists — who, with the Soviets, killed 1.5 million Afghans and tortured tens of thousands. The Uzbeks — now U.S. allies — are more vicious and brutal than Taliban, and deeply involved in drug trading. 3. “defending women's rights.” Laughable nonsense. The Taliban, demonized by western propaganda, mistreated its females no worse than other Afghans. Women are mistreated across South Asia. In India, brides are burned and people hanged for marrying below their caste. An estimated 10 million female fetuses were aborted in India since 1985, according to the leading medical journal Lancet.
BH seems to think that the war in iraq was NOT based on WMD's I think the 500,000 killed may differ with your view and the issue is who put these people in power in the first place?
thefanwithnoname - you are dealing with a level of people who are just so far away from reailty there is no point in talking to them. They actually think the taliban had something to do with 9/11 lol For a start, even if you believe the official lie, it says nothing about the taliban. It talks of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Bin Laden the CIA asset and Al Qaeda the CIA databse. You check out Bin Laden on the FBIs most wanted list and he is on there for the bombing of a US Embassy 10 years before 9/11. He is not, nor ever was, wanted in connection with 9/11 because there is not one jot of evidence of him having any involvement whatsoever. His only involvement in the whole charade is him being the posterchild of a non existant war on terror. The fact that some people dont know this in 2011 is actually quite frightening. 9/11 was a false flag attack carried out by those in control of the American Government. If you would please just watch 10 minutes of the original videos posted in this thread. Bin Laden died 10 years ago and they have just completely fabricated an event involving his death recently, this tells you the level of bullshit that the public has been fed over the last 10 years without any research whatsoever.
mate i know part of me hopes the likes of BH are on the wind up, part of me hopes that maybe they 'learn' something having said that i am can be everybit as annoying as these inbreds, and i like a good argument Its a shame they have to descend into abuse but recent riots/looting show how far we have descended but hey ho
