Afghanastan - Obama's war of choosing

They handed Afghanistan to Obama and are desperately trying to dissociate themselves from the mess they created.

How short is your memory ,dont you remember the terror training camps ?

America’s Terrorist Training Camp
Posted October 30, 2001
What’s the difference between Al Qaeda and Fort Benning?

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th October 2001

“If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents,” George Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, “they have become outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at their own peril.” I’m glad he said “any government”, as there’s one which, though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his urgent attention.

For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at Al-Qaeda’s door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHISC. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it is funded by Mr Bush’s government.

Until January this year, WHISC was called “the School of the Americas”, or SOA. Since 1946 SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers and policemen. Among its graduates are many of the continent’s most notorious torturers, mass murderers, dictators and state terrorists. As hundreds of pages of documentation compiled by the pressure group SOA Watch shows, Latin America has been ripped apart by its alumni.


http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2001/10/30/americas-terrorist-training-camp/

As has already been pointed out in this thread,

His attempt to politicize the war, not any perceived criticisim of it, is what angered Republicans.

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As has already been pointed out in this thread,

Let's see, you are responding to the first post on this thread and this is your first post on the thread.

I am curious how you already pointed something out when you haven't posted here before. I guess you are just trying to give us another example of a conservative out of touch with reality.

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His attempt to politicize the war, not any perceived criticisim of it, is what angered Republicans.

That's funny Finn. So, they had no problem with his comments being out of touch with reality?

I often wonder how much the US economy these days depends on endless war.

Im not defending invasion, Im trying to be pragmatic about how the Afghans would suffer if we left without giving them security.

As I've already pointed out Steele neither opposes the war nor believes Obama chose it, (he's being cynical not delusional) ...

talk72000 wrote:

They handed Afghanistan to Obama and are desperately trying to dissociate themselves from the mess they created.

Who are they?

How many conservatives/Republicans can you name who originally supported the war in Afghanistan but who now want us to pull out?

Are you of the belief that we never should have invaded Afghanistan, or do you simply believe it could have been carried out more successfully? If the latter, what do you think should have been done differently?

How very confident you are of others situation. How easy it is for you to take away an opportunity for freedom from oppression. How easy is it for you to make light of the Taliban's oppressive treatment of women. Don't dilute the question with silly scenarios. We have started this , we should complete it.

Given that Osama Bin Laden was a Saudi and given that, virtually to a man, the terrorists who blew up the twin-towers were Saudi then no, the USA government should not ordered the invasion of Afghanistan. They should have, by their own logic, have ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia.