Are you saying that militant Islam wasn't an enemy of ours in 1991 and 1992? If they weren't, why did the money have to be hidden in Defense bills? Why wasn't arming Afghanistan done out in the open?
Seems like we supported Saddam Hussein back when Iraq was at odds with Iran.
The Mujahadeen had been our friends and they were figthing the soviet puppet Najibullah. The money had to be hidden because mostly - The Bush I Admnistration had said to turn off the spigot. (Congress' ignoring this sounds like a reverse Iran-Contra!! Amazing this wasn't used to bash the Democrats, but typical Bush I collaboration. Also, did Bush I really not know about this, with him being X-CiA?) Another reason, to a lesser extent, is I remember us being worried the Soviets were going to take Sadddam's side during the Gulf War, and that 92 defense bill where the money would have shown up as us fighting the soviet puppets in Afgahanistan, would have probably been funded, publicly, in early 91 when the war with Saddam was still going on. Murtha was reluctant in 91 but Wilson was such a hero that he couldn't turn him down. This was right at the time Murtha and the rest of the crowd and the CIA was waking up to what they were doing. I can't call him a traitor - just stupid, and fat with "inertia".