Now WE are a state sponsor of terror

[LuckyTheDog]

The U.S., apparently, has gone into the business of sponsoring terrorism:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/US_outsourcing_special_operations_intelligence_gathering_0413.html

Great. Has anyone else noticed that we are contemplating using nukes to punish Iran for maybe making nukes... and also using terrorists to defend against Iranian "state-sponsored terror"?

What is this? BIZARRO WORLD?

[helderheid]

1. no nukes or we nuke you!

[Kutjara]

2. We've been doing it for years

Just ask the Chileans, Nicaraguans, Salvadoreans, Laotians, Cambodians and a dozen others.

[Iblis]

3. Nope. Just business as usual.

We've been a state sponsor of terrorism for years, whenever it suits us.

L

[LiberalVoice]

Remeber a guy by the name of Osama Bin Laden?

Neither do I. :yoiks:

[porphyrian]

4. Are they fucking traitors yet? - n/t

[undergroundpanther]

5. Remember Terrorism futures?

They're back!

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A shelved Pentagon plan to create a market allowing traders to bet on the likelihood of events in the Middle East has been revived by the private firm that helped develop it.

But the new version of the Policy Analysis Market (PAM) will not include any securities based on forecasts of violent events such as assassinations or terror attacks, in an effort to avoid the kind of criticism that sank the project this summer.

A commentary on it..

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N36/36editoria.36e.html
http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/17/news/terror_futures/index.htm?cnn=yes

[genie_weenie]

6. How is this differnet from Standard policy?

Every State is responsible for terrorism, because that is the role of the State (terrorise your own citizens daily and other States' citizens every so often).

[Nicholas]

7. yeah, but

what could possibly go wrong with this plan? Its a slam dunk.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Nicholas!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[NNN0LHI]

9. USA was supporting terrorists in Afghanistan to terrorize the Soviets

Matter of fact one of the terrorists at the time who was working for us was Osama bin Laden. Nothing new here.

Don

[obreaslan]

10. Someone better fill these guys in...

On how we usually treat the "freedom fighters" we work with. Just ask the Kurds (1991), Cuban Exiles (1961), etc.

Rise up against your government, we'll be right behind you. Don't worry.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. This has been going on for decades.

Hell, the colonists paid off some Indians to massacre other Indians. Then the colonists massacred the ones they had paid off.

It's gone downhill since.