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Osama Been Forgotten

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Iraq Had Nothing to Do with It.
(Image credit: Steve Jackson Games)

As an interesting side note, that image from a card in the Illuminati game pre-dates the 9/11 attack by several years.

The Daily Mislead sometimes is a great place for a well-documented summary, connecting all the dots in a simple and effective way. Today, it's the War on Terror:

Vice President Dick Cheney claimed yesterday that under the President's leadership we "closed down the training camps [in Afghanistan] where terrorists trained to kill Americans." His comments are not only bold, but a look at the record shows they are deliberately misleading. Just two weeks ago the Bush administration essentially contradicted the claim, warning Americans of an imminent attack on the U.S. homeland from terrorists operating in Afghanistan.

As CNN reported on July 8, Bush administration officials are warning that "a plot to carry out a large-scale terror attack against the United States in the near future is being directed by Osama bin Laden and other top al Qaeda members." According to the administration, these terrorists are operating in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

Unfortunately, in 2002, the Bush administration shifted key special forces out of Afghanistan, effectively removing them from the hunt for al Qaeda. These troops were sent to prepare for an Iraq invasion. That leaves the U.S. with only about 15,000 troops in Afghanistan hunting down al Qaeda, whom they now say are plotting an imminent attack against the country. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has designed plans to add troops to the 140,000 already stationed in Iraq - a country that never had any collaborative relationship with al Qaeda or connection to the 9/11 terrorist attacks (even though the Bush administration has claimed both).

Follow the link for the documentation of the claims from various news sources. I still can't believe that we put Afghanistan on the back burner. It's hard enough trying to rebuild that country and root out Al Qaeda over there, but to take on Iraq for no decent reason? Unbelieveable. Can you imagine just how different things would be today, how much more support we would have around the world, how much more successful we would've been, how much less our troops would be stretched and suffering, had we simply finished what we started over there?

Posted by Observer at July 29, 2004 03:48 PM