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liberalmike27

(2,479 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 11:46 AM May 2012

Continued Pushing of Afghanistan 9/11 Planning Meme

Why does the media, and politicians keep pushing this meme that we're still in Afghanistan to keep people from planning another attack.

This was debunked way back in the early 2000s. Even an idiot could understand these guys could have planned this attack from anywhere. WE know in fact it was partly planned in Germany. We know that people attended flight school in Florida, for one.

It is the most absurd, idiotic argument that our attack on Afghanistan has anything to do with planning, and I have no doubt that there are enemies of the U.S. all over the globe, as we've been attacking, killing, subverting, arranging coups, and killing people all over the globe since WW2 and the existence of the Pentagon. We've been meddling and irritating since we absorbed all the German WW2 SS members in Germany and the Soviet Union after the war, since we imported and learned from the psychological manipulators of the German population, as well as the scientists too.

It really worries me that Americans in general, are too stupid to see through this fairly basic ruse. At least most of them understand the role of oil, and many are beginning to see that Iraq and Afghanistan are two fronts on either side of Iran too. Far too many of them don't seem to care--they actually believe that saying "Why did they put our oil under their land."

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Continued Pushing of Afghanistan 9/11 Planning Meme (Original Post) liberalmike27 May 2012 OP
Why are we still in Afghanistan? Old and In the Way May 2012 #1
Adding Fundamentalist Christian evangelism to this list. paparush May 2012 #2

Old and In the Way

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1. Why are we still in Afghanistan?
Wed May 2, 2012, 12:43 PM
May 2012

oil pipelines, mineral wealth, and strategic location. The political/social aspects of Afghan society are an impediment to commercial exploitation of these assets...so we need to remain to protect those developmental interests.

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