Not a Peep About the President's Praise for War

[JoePhilly]

21. We did not attack the Afgan people.

The Taliban protected Bin Laden in AFGHANISTAN. They and AL Qaeda are the targets in Afghanistan, not the Afgan civilians. Afghanistan has not had a serious government in a few hundred years. Its no surprised the "people" of Afganistan has no idea 9/11 occurred.

The 9/11 attacks were planned and carried out GLOBALLY. The leaders of those who funded it, and carried it out, were in AFGHANISTAN.

And WOW ... really ... 15 or the 19 attackers were from Saudi Arabia ... OMG ... I had NO IDEA!!!!!



And I did not say we should have occupied Afghanistan for 10 years. But I can see your confusion. Bush went in, spent about 20 minutes there, and then went into Iraq, leaving a token force in Afghanistan which lacked the resources to clean up that mess.

So when Obama becomes President ... Afghanistan has not changed much from when Bush first invaded, in fact, it probably got worse because Bush's shift in focus allowed the Taliban and Al Qaeda to move in and out of Pakistan even more freely.

Now, thanks to Obama ... OBL is dead (which should have happened YEARS ago) and most of the AQ leadership also gone ... and Obama is starting to reduce our presence there too.

The bastard!!