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Don't Know Much About History
Becasue I'm Right... ^ | 2/16/08 | Nocomme1

Posted on 02/16/2008 7:10:40 AM PST by Nocomme1

If you were to ask the average American where Al-Qaeda came from you'd probably be met with a blank stare; not surprising considering the current quality of American education. If you were to ask a slightly better informed American the same question there's a pretty good likelihood that you'd hear that the US helped create them in Afghanistan in the 1980's. This would be just another example of the success of liberal opinion as propaganda and failure as fact. There's another story out there, a far more inspiring and instructive story and it has the benefit of being true.

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TOPICS: History; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; charliewilsonswar; flogyerblog; osamabinladen; sovietunion

1 posted on 02/16/2008 7:10:48 AM PST by Nocomme1
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To: Nocomme1

Is this your blog?
You’re very good.


2 posted on 02/16/2008 7:23:26 AM PST by netmilsmom (Giving up "Hairspray" and the cast for Lent. Prayers appreciated!)
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To: Nocomme1

Good blog but the name is too long.


3 posted on 02/16/2008 8:10:28 AM PST by billybudd
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To: Nocomme1
If you were to ask the average American where Al-Qaeda came from

Have you read The Looming Tower", by Lawrence Wright?

4 posted on 02/16/2008 1:47:30 PM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Nocomme1

Blog bookmarked.


5 posted on 02/16/2008 1:50:09 PM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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