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Pakistan (one of three countries that acknowledges the Taliban regime) has just reported that it will back up the United States to fight terrorism. Of course, I don't know what that means coming from a country that acknowledges the Taliban.
(if I were the Taliban, I'd either shoot Bin Laden myself or get him the hell out of my country.)
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The Taliban denied this hours ago. So, unless they've suddenly changed their minds and done so, it's fair to stick this in the "Once again WND comes through for us" file along with the secret plot it reported earlier in the summer that King Adbullah was going to allow Iraq to mount a land invasion of Israel through Jordan.
What we need now is sanity, and even some of the mainstream media outlets, in their zeal, have begun eroding it.
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quote: You do realise, that 90% of Afghanistans' population consists of innocent, oppressed and kept-under-the-thumb civilians... and that blasting the country back to the Stone Age would make us no better than the terrorists. Right?
Tell that to the guy who escaped the WTC, only to find out later that his sister and niece were on the flight from Boston, that hit the building, or the man who had two daughters working in the WTC, one of which escaped. The last time anyone saw the second, she was helping others escape from the building. Or tell it to the family of the man who survived the 1993 bombing of the WTC, but has now been missing for 36 hours, and was last seen helping people escape the WTC.
I have no problem with bombing countries haboring terrorist. I was asked yesterday, if that meant that the English should bomb Erie. My responce was that, if the IRA managed to kill 10,000 people at once, Yes.
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Eire... If you want to be all smartass and try to use the rarely-used indigenous-language term for a country, please don't confuse a beautiful green island with a polluted lake.
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...and I might add, the Republic of Ireland has been denouncing the acts of the IRA since at least the seventies. For fucks sakes, it imposed internment on them, something the human-rights tribunals are still fretting about. And so if crazy Northern Irish republicans (who, it should be noted to their, erm "credit" (too strong a word, really), never launched terrorist attacks for the sole purpose of creating a large civilian body count) tried to kill thousands of English civilians, Ireland should have been carpet-bombed?
(awaits Liam's return to thread to chide such idiocy)
Think.
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At least, He's not showing His face... ashamed to have been caught napping on the 11th?
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even if bin Laden didnt do this, we still have lots of old beef with him, and the govt may use this as impetus to 'clean house' .. i.e. eliminate any old enemy terrorists sitting around, including but not limited to our bud Osama
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Oh, yeah, that's it ... it's not like we've never tried to get him before. He's just over in the next building, and we know exactly where he is, we just ain't been motivated enough. It's not as easy as it sounds.
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See, here's what we should do. We should find a section of this country and evacuate it. Then fill it w/ all the people who think it's okay to bomb civilians. Then we can go to war and tell the other side to direct all their bombs at that area.
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