Snapshots of Afghanistan - August 2009

In message , Bill Graham
writes

"Chris H" wrote in message news:HJDXkVBqTLsKFASC@p
haedsys.demon.co.uk...
In message , Bill Graham
writes

"Bob Larter" wrote in message news:4aaf8ff0$1@d
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"mcdonaldREMOVE TO ACTUALLY REACH wrote:
Chris H wrote:

Al-Qeada were NOT in Iraq and did not have training camps, and
certainly not where he was suggesting I know I was in that region.



Al Qaeda DID have training camps within the territory of Iraq before
the recent war.

You are simply wrong if you say they didn't.

Got any cites to support that claim?

They were limited to a far corner of Iraq and limited in scope,
but they were there.

Did the Iraq government know about them & approve of them?

How would we know? The same question could be asked of Saudi Arabia.
Did they know about the terrorist attack of 9/11 and approve of all
their citizens taking part in it? The Bush-bashers suggest that we
should have attacked Saudi Arabia instead of Afghanistan (or Iraq), but
Saudi Arabia could have been completely unaware that the attack was
going to happen, or that so many Saudi's would be taking part in it.

So if there was no justification for attacking Saudi there is even less
for attacking Afghanistan and none at all for attacking Iraq.

I think there was justification for selectively taking out the training
camps in Afghanistan.

SO why didn't the US do that? No, it didn't it did a full scale
invasion despite eye on the ground doing recce.

How easy this is to do without impacting the rest of the country is
another question......Also, if the camps were operating with the
explicit permission of the country's leadership, then perhaps
punishment is in order.

That si up to the UN otherwise the UK has reason to bomb the USA.

Iraq is a separate question altogether. I never said that the 9/11
attacks justified it. That is a contention that has been hatched up by
the Bush bashers for propaganda purposes.

No it was hatched up by Bush......


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