[holyscroller]

"She added: "How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"

A man who had spent most of his adult life in Afghanistan with a humanitarian organization was on our local radio station (KVI in Seattle) saying Murray was completely wrong. He refuted her every point with specifics of what many organizations, plus the US government had done for the Afghans for years. We HAVE built all the stuff she credited Bin Laden with, and he had been there, done that. Kirby Wilbur, our "historian" Conservative talk show host, should go into the same schools where Murray was attempting to poison the young minds, and set the record straight. This woman is a genuine nitwit. Dumb as a rock, (but Liberal as they come).

[Fabozz]

"We HAVE built all the stuff she credited Bin Laden with..."

Even the day-care centers?

[okie01]

"He refuted her every point with specifics of what many organizations, plus the US government had done for the Afghans for years. We HAVE built all the stuff she credited Bin Laden with..."

Which, as a United States Senator, she should damn well know. Unless she's...

"Dumb as a rock, (but Liberal as they come)."

Her sole credential for holding office, I suppose...

[XBob]

the strange and sad part of this, is that she is probably correct, sort of.

'We' don't build roads and infrastructure in foreign countries. We pay for them to be built.

As Bin Laden Construction is the largest mid-eastern construction company (5th largest const. co in the world), and specializes in infrastructure construction, roads, bridges, dams, etc, it is highly likely that we paid for, and bin laden made the money and got the credit for, all those infrastructure construction projects.