Afghanistan is No One's War (John Chuckman, Counterbias)

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Afghanistan is No One's War

July 13 2006
Counterbias.com
by John Chuckman


A summary of events leading to the invasion of Afghanistan is helpful.

Following 9/11, the Taleban government said it would extradite Osama bin Laden if the U.S. could produce evidence against him. This is the approach taken by the courts of every Western country when extradition is requested.

The U.S. either could not or would not produce any evidence, yet it insisted the Taleban was behaving in bad faith and harboring criminals.

To this day, the public has not been given one genuine piece of evidence that ties bin Laden to 9/11. I’m not saying he’s innocent, only that there was no proof at the time Bush used him as an excuse to invade Afghanistan.

Continue.. http://www.counterbias.com/688.html

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1. like the US invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is . . .

all about oil . . .

at least it started that way . . . today it's probably more a matter of inertia . . .