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Originally posted by timewarrior2001
Since sept 11th the world has become a really dangerous place, America talked a brave talk but the action never quite lived up to it. Afghanistan is free of the Taliban, but they are no better off. Iraq is free of saddam yet he is still a threat, Bin ladin cannot be found but he is still active.
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The only reason the world has become a dangerous place since 9/11 is because GWB has MADE it one!
Why did the US invade afghanistan? because some of the hijackers went there - lets ignore the fact that most of those hijackers were from saudi arabia - and the report published about that event had pages of details about those saudi hijackers censored by the us government!
But hey - the us now control a major oil pipeline going through asia so lets forget the small details......
And what about saddam and the threat he posed....
what threat? the US was trying to link him and bin laden together - yet EVERY integence report that came to light catergorically stated they couldnt stand one another. Bin laden himslf was quoted as calling saddam 'The Infidel' - hardly pillow talk
ahhh, well, he had all those WMD and was a serious threat to the west....oh hang on...we had better change our tune here now we have invaded, kicked him out of power and are the occupying force in a country that does not want us there - the same country where after 4 months of frantic looking, WMD have STILL to be found...("well, he obviously destroyed them before we invaded" - so, in other words, he did what you told him to do, but you invaded anyway
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so no more talk of WMD, lets all pat ourselves on the back for ridding the globe of an evil leader..... just a bit odd we do that in an oil rich country, and leave FAR WORSE tyrants in far poorer countries to do what they want - mugabe et al spring to mind...
And who is the US making noises againsed now? Iran - ANOTHER oil rich country
So in a year the US has made threats (and action), under the guise of fighting international terrorism, towards 3 countries and the only things that link them are very tenous links to terrorism, oh, and a massive abundance of oil - yet other dictatorships, with oppressive murderous regimes get hardly a mention - call me cynical but i somehow doubt 'fighting the good fight' is the US' main objective here....
*gets off soap box*