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> We’ll bring our troops home, whether Bush likes it or not

6 July 2005, 03:57

Their have always been feudal warlords in the region, but definitely there was no Taliban in charge of neighboring Afghanistan until the U.S. and CIA wanted an ultra conservative and oppresive ruling class to protect the giant UNOCAL trans-gulf oil pipeline. And there was no organized Al Quada until the U.S. and CIA trained its leaders—most famously, Bin Laden himself—in terrorist and commando techniques during the Afghan-Soviet War.

During the Iran-Iraq War, the U.S. and CIA backed Saddam and helped him solidify the brutality and ultra conservative dictatorship that eventually tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of Saddam’s real or imagined enemies (many of the imagined enemies were targeted by their ethnic/tribal affiliations). The U.S. also gets major blame for the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Iraq that were hastened by sanctions on food and other supplies. in concert with the billions of dollars that supposedly went into human relief efforts, but were stolen or diverted by corporate interests.

It’s all about oil. The hell with the people. In Bush’s administration, that starts with easy targets like gays and blacks and arabs and impoverished, and anyone accused of hating god and country.