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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/07/2010 : 05:22:42
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I dunno, but Noam Chomski makes a pretty good argument for it. As skeptics, we demand evidence and now that I think of it, the Bush administration came up with precious little beyond cheap rhetoric -- about anything, really.
Leading liberal intellectual Noam Chomsky just told Press TV:
"The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban…they requested evidence…and the Bush administration refused to provide any," the 81-year-old senior academic made the remarks on Press TV's program a Simple Question.
"We later discovered one of the reasons why they did not bring evidence: they did not have any."
The political analyst also said that nonexistence of such evidence was confirmed by FBI eight months later.
"The head of FBI, after the most intense international investigation in history, informed the press that the FBI believed that the plot may have been hatched in Afghanistan, but was probably implemented in the United Arab Emirates and Germany."
Chomsky added that three weeks into the war, "a British officer announced that the US and Britain would continue bombing, until the people of Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban... That was later turned into the official justification for the war."
"All of this was totally illegal. It was more, criminal," Chomsky said.
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Well, it was the beginning of the Bush/Cheney debacle when lying was standard, operating procedure, so this should come as small surprise. However, if indeed this is is the case, I would like to see those individuals responsible for getting us into two useless wars stand before a court and explain themselves.
I find it sickly amusing that Bush has Saddam's pistol gracing his "library" like a trophy walleye. And right from the first, I've wondered if it wasn't planted on him. I have no evidence in support of this beyond the blatant dishonesty of those tragic times.
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The Rat
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Canada
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Posted - 11/07/2010 : 05:33:03 [Permalink]
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| I think there's plenty of evidence that Bin Laden was behind it, there's even a video of him discussing it with an aide. He was heard remarking that they never expected the destruction to be that great. But the Bush/Cheney crime syndicate immediately seized upon the opportunity they were given to subvert the constitution and attempt a bloodless coup. Fortunately some semblance of reason prevailed, but much damage has been done. Most members of that (mis)administration should be in jail. |
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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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bin Laden innocent?
