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grantcart

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20. Well I was involved in resettling 10,000 Afghan refugees between 1980 and 1985

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 12:54 AM

Dec 2011

and visited the region and the refugee camps a couple of times a year so if you have more intimate involvement than that then be my guest.

If you know any Afghans personally then ask them the significance of September 9th, a day that is much more significant to them than September 11th is to us.

Mullah Omar was deeply involved in the events of September 9th and every Afghan outside of the Taliban knows it. The events of September 9th were directly related to the events of September 11th.

It is the one thing that unites all Afghans. It is why no Afghan academic believes that the Taliban was ever interested in handing over bin Laden it was entirely for foreign consumption, in the same way that Hitler's justification for expanding into the Sudetenland to protect the German minorities was only for the gullible far away, people in the region knew the real reason.

The fact that you didn't reply to my point about events immediately prior to 9/11 makes it clear that you don't have any idea of their significance. Kind of like talking about the civil war and not knowing anything about Gettysburg.

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Bush rejected Taliban offers to hand over Bin Laden in October 2001 [View all] cowcommander Dec 2011 OP

If he had taken their offer it would have blown everything. Turbineguy Dec 2011 #1

Well, duh, I remember this, musette_sf Dec 2011 #2

They never had proof that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 sabrina 1 Dec 2011 #3

So why couldn't he be taken on the Embassy bombing charges? musette_sf Dec 2011 #4

True, but then there would have been no reason to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. sabrina 1 Dec 2011 #5

Oh yeah, that PNAC game plan. musette_sf Dec 2011 #8

If Gore won the presidency......911 wouldn't have happened thelordofhell Dec 2011 #6

yes to your subject line. MH1 Dec 2011 #12

He would have continued President Clinton's policy of bombing OBL thelordofhell Dec 2011 #21

When Al Gore read that 'Bin Laden tdetermined to Strike US' his response wouldn't have been... wizstars Dec 2011 #18

Yep. Think of how that one person (Al Gore) could have affected Kahuna Dec 2011 #26

Yes, the Afghan war was quite avoidable Bragi Dec 2011 #7

And why didn't Bu$hCo's crack National Security Advisor musette_sf Dec 2011 #10

Because Bush was hiding under his desk? Bragi Dec 2011 #14

Edit - got it now, it was Bu$hie who was hiding - musette_sf Dec 2011 #16

Pretty much, yeah Bragi Dec 2011 #17

The bu$h regime needed a boogie man liberal N proud Dec 2011 #9

R#2 & k N/R UTUSN Dec 2011 #11

Please, this silliness again. grantcart Dec 2011 #13

You're just wrong Bragi Dec 2011 #15

Well I was involved in resettling 10,000 Afghan refugees between 1980 and 1985 grantcart Dec 2011 #20

So you where there for a period of time Rex Dec 2011 #23

Well if you are asking if I have discoverd the Secret of the Sufi grantcart Dec 2011 #25

We were aware of this back then. I believe it Cleita Dec 2011 #19

Thom Hartmann used to rant about this off & on for 4-5 years. patrice Dec 2011 #22

Well of course he did, what was the point of that? Rex Dec 2011 #24