Reply #36: "You have to be pretty fringe to disagree"?? Bullshit.

[TahitiNut]

Nice attempt at a preemptive personal attack. Here we have yet another "anyone who disagrees with me is a moron and a freeper" ploy ... which is so, so civil and respectful of conscientious and principled disagreement.

"Carpet of gold or carpet of bombs!" Ever heard of that?

Oil/gas pipelines 'OWNED' by a consortium of global corporatists paying alleged "royalties" instead of owned by the People of Afghanistan and operated as a SERVICE on the "free market" at prevailing rates.

The Taliban government of Afghanistan offered to extradite Osama bin Laden to a third country given reasonable evidence of guilt ... and the Cheney/Bush cabal refused, claiming they had to be sure of getting him "Dead or Alive." How's that worked out?? Huh?

The Taliban government of Afghanistan had eradicated the opium production. It's back. That's a 'bonus' for the Cheney/Bush cabal ... there's MONEY in the War on (Some) Drugs.

Karzai is a corporatist stooge - a colonial governor. Afghanistan is now a corporate colony ... and the "natives are restless."

A 'legal' War is a LAST RESORT! The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was a foregone conclusion even before 9/11.