On Sep 16, 1:22*am, wrote:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:48:11 -0700, "nom=de=plume"





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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:37:41 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
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Let's hope Obama doesn't break that record but the worst days of the
"good war" are on Obama's watch. I still am not sure why we are
there.
http://icasualties.org/oef/

I don't have a good feeling about increasing troop strength at this
point.
As Obama said (paraphrasing), the generals are thinking about the war,
the
president needs to think about the world.

The interesting thing to me was said on Anderson Cooper the other
night from Afghanistan. It turns out we don't even think Bin Laden is
there anymore and that the Taliban has absolutely no global
aspirations. Their connection to Al Queda is tenuous at best.-

today that's true. wasn't true on 9/11.

If you believe that you are saying GWB was right and BHO is wrong. Are
you sure you don't want to reconsider?
Personally I don't believe the Taliban has ever had any grudge with
the US beyond our invading their country and if we leave they won't
care about us at all. They tolerated al queda but, I doubt they had
anything to do with 9-11

?? The Taliban were clearly supporting bin laden, although not many years
prior to 9/11, certainly leading up to it. They did more than tolerate them.
They actively supported them in the timeframe I notes.

It wasn't all that many years since Bin Laden was in Sudan 3 years
earlier (when Clinton let him go) We punished them by blowing up their
aspirin factory and killing a security guard. That showed them!

Support? What kind of support? If you mean they let him use a cave, so
what.

they didn't let him 'use a cave'. he was in power, bankrolling the
taliban regime. we insisted he be turned over to us. they refused.
but you seem willing to ignore that.

These guys are Saudis. Rich Saudis. What did we do to Saudi Arabia? We
held their hand and gave them $100 for oil

the saudis practice wahabi islam, a paranoid, hated filled view of an
already backward religion. it's no wonder most of the killers were
saudi.