[Roscoe Karns]

Of course Pilger goes on to say Bush wanted an oil pipeline through Afghanistan...

Credit to Tim Blair blog http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/006373.php

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[writer33]

How can this be? I thought President Bush's administration was a bunch of complete, utter morons. :) hA!

[expatpat]

Take that, Clarke!

Unfortunately, if this gets general acceptance, the Dem'rats will then flip, and say Bush precipitated 9/11 by his over-aggressive plans to attack the Taliban! You can't win with the libs -- they'll take both sides of an issue, without shame.

[Solamente]

" Well, well, well, well, WELL! UMPH! "

[cwb]

This is a point the media keeps ignoring, as this was even mentioned by Colin Powell in his testimony. As Powell noted, before there could've been any military action against the Taliban, the US had to negotiate, normally with hostile countries, for air-flight rights and foward base deployment. This is why Powell was personally involved with negotiations with both Pakistan and Usbekistan. As he further noted, without these concessions, US soldiers would've been placed at greater risk, because things like search and rescue would've took hours from further locales. We certainly didn't want to "rush to war" without having a plan in place...which as Powell said, was on its way.

[mrsmith]

And there was this report in Jane's six months before the WTC attack:

janes.com

15 March 2001
"India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime. ...Several recent meetings between the newly instituted Indo-US and Indo-Russian joint working groups on terrorism led to this effort to tactically and logistically counter the Taliban.
Intelligence sources in Delhi said that while India, Russia and Iran were leading the anti-Taliban campaign on the ground, Washington was giving the Northern Alliance information and logistic support. "

[PISANO]

Oh I see. The directive that could have prevented 911, was, in fact, the catalyst for it. Thus... another excursion into WONDERLAND.

[mrsmith]

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