Please Think Back on When and Why We Went to Afghanistan

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73. We were no closer to a resolution there than we were in 2002.

The former Soviet Union tried for about 35 years to establish control there and they had to finally vacate their fighting there and pull out after their economy began to collapse. They had, however, a strategic reason to be there which involved routing oil through the Black Sea. We never had any reason whatsoever to be there in the first place. This was Cheney's and Rumsfeld's boondoggle and it was a pretext to invade Iraq that had absolutely zero to do with 9-11. All of the highjackers were Saudis and the W Bush administration allowed their diplomatic staff and others who were in the United States at the time to leave on chartered flights -- the only people allowed to fly out of the country following the grounding of our commerical air travel.