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Apr 21, 2004 It's both amazing and disgracful that America spends substancial monies and time trying desperately to lay blame for 9-11 on someone...anyone! Our nation, along with a sure-to-grow list of others, faces an enemy using tactics never before used on a scale that has developed since that day the Towers fell. Anyone taking the time to check out what happened in Afghanastan almost immediately thereafter should check out "The Hunt for bin Laden" by Robin Cook. Yes, the same Robin Cook who wrote "The Green Berets." This administration was able to assemble less than 400 special forces members (mostly Berets)in a matter of weeks. Using their special talents, these warriors brought the warring factions loosely called "The Northern Alliance" into a fighting force that sent approximately 30,000 Taliban and al-Quida to their professed martydom before a conventional soldier's boots touched the ground that had swallowed up foreigners footware for centuries. Our killed in action was barely into two didgits. As this unprecedented action was followed up with the religiously demented Taliban scattered, al-Quida's mindleless zombies desperately looking for easier targets, the administration shifted into a confrontational mode against the mutant Iraqis. Check back through editions of any main line newspaper, the film from CNN or whoever: There was near unanimous agreement that Saddam Hussian had secreted stocks of Weapons of Mass Destruction. With the Saudis under covert seige from Hussian, monies sent to family members of suicidal terrorists slicing away at Israel, Iraq showing signs of cozying closer to Iran's most fanatical theorists, the West's oil interests (the ones who developed the land's treasure and made all oil holders wealthy)understandably nervous, it is reasonable that we might intervene. That what appeared to be turned out to be something less sinister is a blessing. Certainly not something to lay at the feet of this administration. Think of what would be the causes of concern today had President Bush and his administration done nothing after Afghanastan. Reporting the daily casualty figures, a commission trying to nail someone...these antics demoralize our fighting personnel more than just about anything we could manage. ------------ Email Dennis Dickinson: first_round_knockouts@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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