Ronald Reagan meets with the Taliban

[Christa]

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. That'll leave a mark. I think I might make it a Christmas card for my freeper in-laws.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. This would make a fun headline in the Washington Post or the NY Times

or maybe it was?

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Cool. Ronnie was sooo Republicon. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Ronnie was another great Republicon chickenhawk. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

5. "We republicons do have our chickenhawkish ways. Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Deferments' Cheney

[OHdem10]

4. Bin Laden was one of those freedom fighters. It always has been

a fascinating story of how our friends and allies one day
are our mortal enemies the next.

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Money talks" - Republicon Motto

eom

[FBaggins]

8. And Vica-Versa

England... Japan... Germany? All mortal enemies at one point.

[FBaggins]

7. If only we could arrange another meeting n/t

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. Uh, that's not the Taliban.

Those are the warlords who would later be fighting the Taliban.

[951-Riverside]

12. The Northern Alliance?

Interesting, I'd love to learn more about that photo.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

13. They weren't called that at the time.

Those are Mujahideen leaders, most of whom would go on to be participants in the Afghan civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal. Some of them may have eventually sided with the Taliban, but to say that this photo is of Reagan meeting with the Taliban is extremely disingenuous, as the Taliban didn't even exist at that point.

[Deja Q]

15. Logical and accepted.

+1

[mdmc]

23. you are correct

[Strelnikov_]

25. Correct, and of whom (Muj) Ahmad Shah Massoud was a part

And since he was probably the biggest threat to the Taliban holding power, he was assassinated just before 9/11.

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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. Sorry, but globalresearch.ca is not a reliable source for information.

It's basically an outlet for Mike Chossudovsky's conspiracy theories about the US using the so-called HAARP program to effect global climate change. He does a nice job of wrapping this up in pseudoliberal material, but quite frankly the man is a fucking nutter.

[parasim]

26. Yeah, you know, I was kinda wondering about that after i posted the link.

I just did a quick search on that photo to try to add some insight into it, not really closely checking out the site it was on until after I posted it. My bad. Feel free to disregard my post altogether.

[NNN0LHI]

17. Uh, Mullah Mohammed Omar the leader of the Taliban was once a US backed anti-Soviet fighter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550419.stm

Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 14:23 GMT 15:23 UK
Profile: Mullah Mohammed Omar

Mullah Omar and Bin Laden go back to their time as resistance fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan of 1979 to 1989.

His right eye was damaged by shrapnel when he was fighting Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers in the 1980s.

[NJmaverick]

10. K and R

[dems_rightnow]

11. That does not appear to be accurate.

PBS attributes that Reagan quote as being about the Contras in Nicaragua.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/peopleevents/pande08.html

[devilgrrl]

24. What's the difference between the Taliban and the Contras? Both are murderous thugs.

As was the Ronald Reagan administration.

Most of the shit we're mired in today started with him.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Actually he was on to something there. BRIBES BOT BOMBS!!! $ talks, BS walks.

[NNN0LHI]

19. Watch Reagan dedicate a Space Shuttle flight to the Afghan Freedom Fighters here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rxM_799r0g

While keeping in mind that Mullah Omar the leader of the Taliban was once an Afghan Freedom Fighter. As was Osama bin Laden.

[jillan]

27. Ooooooh - I bookmarked that - thank you!

[progressoid]

29. Well, technically he dedicated it to the "people" of Afghanistan.

not specifically the freedom fighters.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

20. The Taliban did meet with oilmen in Texas in 1997 to discuss the pipeline.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm

[NNN0LHI]

21. Video of President Ronald Reagan Meeting Some Mujahideen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3f9mlUQzJA&NR=1

Wonder if bin Laden was present?

[progressoid]

22. Didn't we debunk this a year or two ago?

:shrug:

[D23MIURG23]

28. OMFG!!! K&R

[tyedyeto]

30. I believe it was St. Ronnie who sent Rumsfeld

to Iraq to make a chemical weapons deal with Saddam Hussein.

Can't find the pic but it's out there.

[Wilms]

31. !

[Mithreal]

32. Should be posted every day. K&R

[pleah]

33. K&R