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- rjmills, on 10/12/2007, -23/+107We have always been at peace with Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda are our allies. To think otherwise is to be mistaken.
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+90We are at war with ourselves.
- dtd00d, on 10/12/2007, -11/+68We also gave Iraq a guy named Saddam for years.
We're so good about efficiency. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+71Thanks for lying to everyone again, President Traitor. Only a ***** genius funds BOTH sides of a civil war. What a piece of *****.
- xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -27/+74We are at war with Eurasia.
We are at war with East Asia.
We are at war with Eurasia.
We are at war with East Asia.
We are at war with Eurasia.
We are at war with East Asia.
We are at war with Eurasia.
We are at war with East Asia. - oceanmajk, on 10/12/2007, -6/+52"In this process, we're financing a lot of bad guys with some serious potential unintended consequences. ... It's a very high-risk venture."
good plan guys... good plan - technogenius, on 10/12/2007, -11/+48@xtmno3
We are at war with Eurasia, we have always been at war with Eurasia-never with East Asia
We are at war with East Asia, we have always been at war with East Asia-Never with Eurasia - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -8/+43try, we have been funding al-qaeda since 1970's
- flycatcher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27I don't know why this would surprise anyone. There are different parts of the economy, and this is just business as usual for the military industrial complex. It's the way it works and has been part of the American fabric since post-WW2. If you don't like it, consider the "good life" you'd be giving up for you and your children. Don't blame Bush or the current government, lame your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents for not heeding Eisenhower's advice, and then blame yourself.
- Disclaimer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26Funding extremism today gives us a pass to invade tomorrow.
- Corrosionx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20If you pay your taxes, you're funding terrorists (amongst other atrocities)
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Things like this should be the top news everywhere - left, right and center.
- karel747, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25God damn-it. This piece so ***** president and his administration is playing games with our money and our soldiers' lives. how the flying ***** could anyone put this guy in office...TWICE!
Damn...I hate to say it, but every day I feel more and more urge to emigrate to Canada. The US is decaying from the inside, and we can't do anything about it. I feel doomed. - wendelgee2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun the clone war has.
- lpferris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Months my ass. More like years. And years and years and years.
- m1th, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Here's a video interview with Seymour Hersh on Iran. http://www.tajally.com/media/02_07/fyi45/LE-Seymour%20Hersh-Iran.wmv
Also, his new must read article over at the new yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21The word "blowback" springs to mind, doesn't it?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21Don't act like LGF is a news source, they're a sick cult. They're no more of a news source than stormfront.org or godhatesfags.com.
- jake8689, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14we also gave them guns to fight the USSR in the 80's under the wonderful eye of the Reagan, the so called ''great'' president
- crweaks23, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16he did better than we're doing.
- DopeWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Doesn't anyone here remember that it was the CIA who started "the database" in the first place...
"Throughout the 80s he (Bin Laden) was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."
Robin Cook
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523838,00.html - tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@albrad84, to quote from the article:
Hersh said, "a by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al-Qaeda."
Keep in mind, Al-Qaeda is not a membership sort of thing. I really don't see a difference between a "member of Al-Qaeda" and being "sympathetic to Al-Qaeda." - sk8ordiemofo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16@ mpredosin
islam does not support terrorism or anything of the like. These terrorists have defaced a once peaceful relgion.
Bush you suck. Funding the people that knocked down your towers? you have reached a new low. - drphred, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Try New Zealand instead. Warmer and more liberal. And MUCH farther from the US and any blow-back that may hit there.
- whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@ShinerMan
he might have been oversimplifying things, but i think he was referring to the roots of Al-Quaeda in the Afghani mujahedeen... which would be late 70's. - heavensblade23, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18The article doesn't appear to actually say we're funding Al Qaeda, unless I missed something.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12To understand a bigger scope/picture and connect more dots:
The Grand Chessboard - book by Zbigniew Brzezinski
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261
http://www.wanttoknow.info/brzezinskigrandchessboard
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html
The Power of Nightmares
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm
Who Killed John ONeil?
http://WhoKilledJohnOneil.com - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14It's not on cnn, bbc either, that damn liberal bias!
- tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13(I'm just going to copy my comment from an ealier digg thread. It applies here as well.)
Worked great in Afghanistan against the Soviets. (Well, not really. The soviets pulled out as their empire collapsed from the inside.) Having the CIA arm and train the Mujaheddin worked so well. Sure made Pres Reagan proud of the "freedom fighters", as he called them. I guess we will just have to overlook the long term consequences of arming and training a bunch of Islamic fundamentalists in the use of terrorist methods.
Its not like we would expect these Iranian radicals to one day turn their attentions towards us. Just because it happened under the neighboring Taliban Afghanistan, no reason to think it would happen again. Nope, none. - jake8689, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10it also seems a little weird that Nixon got impeached for wire taping but bush dose it and he gets a stern talking to, Clinton gets bj and sex mixed up and gets questioned and bush lies to us about wmd's and gets a talk en to.
I say we as a people make Congress impeach him for lying to this country i mean come the did it in the past for less - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9That's absolutely false. If we're declaring war on Islam, then Mr. Bush needs to announce it publicly so he can be impeached and imprisoned accordingly while the people, not the supreme court, elect a president that is willing to submit to the constitution.
- JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Brain hurts. Logic defeated.
I'm going to go lie down. - cybortrip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9yeah because the US has never conducted secret black ops missions. also, the US government has never meddled in the affairs of other nations. nor has the US used proxies in order to get the desired (and just as often undesired) result.
- apolloandi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10im not suprised by this at all
we shipped pallets of cash to the damn country
something tells me were not good with money - MattCruikshank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@flycatcher - actually, Dwight originally called it the miltary-industrial-congressional complex.
Scary, huh? - lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it mostly refers to "militant sunni groups"....which are almost always sympathetic to al-qaeda, but not necessarily affiliated.
- nblsavage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Not just guns. The CIA trained them as well. Including Bin Laden
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The Patriot Act gives the president unlimited power. It allows the president to detain, torture, or kill anyone he chooses without warrant, trial, notice, or accountability. That's the only power you need to have complete control over the country.
- lateralus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Ofcourse not. That act is only to rule the unwashed masses.
- rjmills, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm kind of pissed. They probably changed the story because they thought they'd made a mistake. (Maybe they saw the Digg traffic and looked to see what everyone was going nuts about.) Maybe they did make a mistake. But they didn't print anything to that effect. The simply changed the original article without notice. They could have at least printed a "correction" of some sort. Now it either looks like a conspiracy or I'm an idiot. (Thank God I copied and pasted the original quote.)
For the record, the original quote was somewhere around the "spreading the money around" quote.
If there's anyone who remembers reading the original quote, please chime in and say so so I don't look like a complete dumbass. And Yahoo News, not cool or ethical. - eriksanerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6
We must take leaders who support terrorists out of power
The U.S has given money to terrorist sympathizers
Thus, we must take the fight to those who support terrorism, and invade America. - bherring, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Isn't there something in the Patriot Act making this kind of activity illegal?
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's not what he was talking about.
There is not world/global "Al Qaeda" organisation as such. Al Qaeda is just a term for all loose muslim religious groups basically opposed to american domination and willing to fight it violently. If I build a bomb in my basement and detonate it in a neighouring school, claiming I want to destroy america, that's it I am a "member" of Al Qaeda. I didn't have to meet a whole hierarchy of guys on top of which Ben Laden supposedly stands.
You have to be pretty delusional if you believe in an organisation so huge with ramifications everywhere and a central command. Every piece of the so called "Al Qaeda" fights its own fight. Nowadays even Hezbollah (which fights to control the Lebanese territories) is being described as "linked to Al Qaeda". If there was such a complex and powerful organisation bombs would be blowing up everyday in every western country and embassy. - karel747, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@flycatcher
Holy *****. That's it. I don't know what the hell is the solution for us. 'Welcome to the brave new world, where your character plays no role in you life, only your past and what the BigBoys decide to do with you'. Soon enough the national ID cards will start to spread, and, BOOM, before you know it, Nazi Germany, digital-age style. And all for the sake of security.
Please forgive me if I sound rattled...I am. - redpoint13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"US Government has funded Al-Qaeda for months"
- Try decades... - karel747, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Yeah...We're trying, but it isn't working. This man and his administration (maybe puppeteers) is working with his own agenda in mind. No-one wanted to go to war in the first place. No-one wants to fund a war we have no business in. We want to get rid of the guy (thirty-what perecent disapproval rating!?), but the only people who do have to power to impeach this piece of ***** are on his payroll (so to speak). Democracy my ass...
- sufferwell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6'US Government has funded Al-Qaeda for months'
Breaking news: The sky is blue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_state_terrorism_by_United_States_of_America
If Osama Bin Laden offered the US Admin Billions for protection, the US will probably agree if there is a profit to be made,
it's capitalism after all is it not? - GabrielS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This story is an AFP release. It's quoting the New Yorker piece by Seymour Hersh.
See this comment.
http://digg.com/politics/US_Government_has_funded_Al_Qaeda_for_months#c5429677 - Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The real beauty of this is that the US is supplying funding, weapons and training _to the shiites too_.
Not to Hezbollah, granted, at least not directly, but to other shiite groups opposed to Al Qaeda and allied with Hezbollah. - GabrielS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You left out the most important reason.
Iran's #1 oil importer is Japan. -
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