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To: Cultural Jihad, tpaine
Hey drug warrior... put this in your pipe and smoke it...

Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
By Robert Scheer
Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times

Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Wonder how much pilot training and supplies $43,000,000 bought?

But please do carry on with your policies of interventionism...

322 posted on 09/13/2001 2:53:55 PM PDT by DAnconia55
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To: DAnconia55
So, the Taliban appoints Osama as their military Grand Poohbah, GW's administration then gives them a gift of $43M, and then they attack us.

So, is GW's administration as stoooooopid on Afghanistan as Al Gore's team was on Russia (re the loan rip offs)?

Or was the $43M payment for, as of last week, an as-yet-to-be-delivered service?

It's starting to look a lot like Arkansas ....

327 posted on 09/13/2001 3:12:05 PM PDT by That Poppins Woman
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