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Originally posted by Food Eater Lad
We didnt send money to the taliban, we sent money to the UN witch then gave it to the Taliban. We gave the money as a forgein aid package for humanitarian purposes. So are you saying that the evil Taliban used the money the UN gave them improperly, and that is the US's fault?
Get your facts straight.
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You should really calm down, eh? Not good for the ticker.
Here is a link to an article by Robert Scheer that was published in the L.A. Times.
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcol...mns/052201.htm
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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.
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Here's a link to Votefreedom.org
http://www.votefreedom.org/blame.html
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In the terrorist attacks, buildings and lives were equally shattered. Yet just several months beforehand, the United States gave the Taliban a gift of 43 million dollars in aid. This was a bribe to the Taliban inducing them to say that growing poppy was now against the will of Allah. Do you think that perhaps a bit of this aid was diverted to their good pals in the hood – namely Bin Laden and company? Most certainly. Who then is also to blame for buildings being blown up?
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But these are opinion pieces....so here's a link to a washington post story.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
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Under intense international pressure, in June 2000, Taliban leader Mohammad Omar banned poppy cultivation, declaring that it violated the teachings of the Koran. The next year, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan plummeted to 185 tons, according to a newly released U.N. report. The United States, saying it welcomed the ban, in May announced a $43 million grant to help Afghan farmers.
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Wonder who they gave it to?
Even Wil Wheaton has something to say...
http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/000927.php
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How about that Super Bowl? I missed most of it because I was working, but I'm so glad that New England won...way to go Underdogs!
I did get to see this one commercial, that said that if you use drugs, you're supporting terrorism, which is nice, because I thought that giving 43 million dollars to the Taliban to kill opium poppies was supporting terrorism, but TV learned me good.
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I don't know if they gave that money to the U.N. In all the articles I found, there was no mention. You may certainly be right, but I find it hard to believe that
if that money was given to the U.N. that we had absolutely no influence on what it was to be used for.
Coincidentally, I find it ironic that you tell me to "get my facts straight" yet fail to provide any links for independent confirmation of
your facts.
