OT John Murtha Democrat from Pennsylvania

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Afganistan was justified, imho, and it's mission should have actually been
finished. But when the ratings started to dwindle because the mission
wasn't going well ( where is Bin Laden, btw ? ) we were all told "time for
a new war." Out came the flags and the bibles and soon the gullible
and the fearful were goosestepping off to the mid-term elections to give
Bush the support he needed to start ruining many things in this country
and around the world.
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I had a lot of problems with Afghanistan. Technically, it was unnecessary.
As a Moslem, when Osama went to Afghan and asked to come in, he was a guest
of Afghan. Not to put too fine a point on it, but when a Moslem accepts you
or invites you as his guest he is more or less obligated, you are under his
protection.

As I recall, all along the Taliban said, "No, we can't give him up, he is
our guest. Can you give us any proof?" Of course we would not divulge 'our
sources.'
Had we given proof, the Taliban would have been more or less obligated to
give Osama up. The Taliban knew definitely that we would blow the hell out
of them. We wanted to, regardless, so we used their religion against them ,
religious discrimination. Which is patently obvious to any Mid Eastern
dweller.


I just can't figure out why 'they' hate us.

john