@Lash,
Quote:I definitely see the US motive for discovering the status quo in Pakistan and being inactive for a while - but are you suggesting we were in on hiding him in the first place? What would our motive be?
You seemingly are that thick, Lash. OBL, like a lot of other less than desirable individuals have been close friends and allies of the US. Take a look at the historical record, nooooo, not the propaganda that you're used to, the facts. OBL was made, supported by the US, as was the Taliban.
The US could have had OBL years ago. The Taliban offered him a number of times, but the US always refused. Bush refused, choosing instead to create a situation that caused the deaths of untold numbers of Afghans. And don't give me that bullshit about how Bush was trying to save them from the Taliban. The US didn't give a **** about the people of Afghanistan. They made and supported the Taliban for many years.
The US provided massive funding to fight the Soviets, and politicians in the US stated they had no problem with a million or so Afghans dying just as long as the US could hand the Soviets their own Vietnam.
French troops could have killed OBL twice but both times they were stopped by American forces.
Take a good close look at the deaths caused by the terrorist actions of OBL and Al Qaeda and compare them to those caused by the US. OBL and the boys are pikers, their numbers don't come anywhere close to the murderous actions of the US for over a century of terrorism.
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America’s Terrorist Training Camp
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
http://www.monbiot.com/2001/10/30/americas-terrorist-training-camp/
“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."
Why is it that when a US prez tells baldfaced lies like this, the entire US nation isn't rolling on the floor laughing their asses off?
Vietnam [millions of innocents killed], Nicaragua [40-50 thousand], Guatemala [tens of thousands], the Philippines [hundreds of thousands], Korea [millions], Japan [hundreds of thousands], Laos & Cambodia [million plus] , ... .
