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How exactly does Reagan arming terrorists who hated America when he armed them make ME a Soviet sympathizer???Only liberal wacko, Socialist idiot would understand that crap, most real Americans wont. It must be really horrible to be in youre liberal mind, with such skewed perspective on you're country. I'm sure you have some sympathies for the Soviet Union Thank God there are very few like you in this country youd fit in better in Europe
Only a FASCIST whacko, CON$ervative idiot could rationalize that, no real American could. It must be really horrible to be in youre Fascist mindset, with such a skewed perspective of pure hatred for this great country. Thank God there are very few like you in this great country, youd fit in better in Nazi Germany.
We armed the Afghans idiot.. Not bin-laden. Maybe he joined in after. I know its too bad youre Communist buddies were defeated, and only 20% of Americans are in you're lib wako camp.. Sorry, also what is a fascist in your mind? Or do you even know? And come up with you're own words if you're able. you seem to be in an alternate universe or something.. Physiological counseling might help.
Reagan armed many who hated America, the West. It was called the REAGAN DOCTRINE. Ever heard of it????? I know Fascists have very selective memories, but even you must remember it! GOP congressman even admits it!
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It was called the Reagan Doctrine. In the eyes of Reagan officials bent on rolling back the Reds everywhere, Afghanistan exemplified the phrase "communist domination." By the time the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, the U.S government had lavished $3 billion in arms on the rebels, who, during the bloodiest days of the war, were downing an average of one Russian helicopter gunship per day.
"These werent American weapons," said Rohrabacher. "By and large, it was done with Russian equipment bought from Egypt or one of the other states that was once allied with Russia but was now friendly to us. About the only American weapons they had were the Stinger missiles."...
... the majority of U.S. military-aid recipients were unsavory, even unstable characters. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which coordinated the efforts on the ground in Afghanistan, was never very choosy about who got arms.
Roughly half the weapons the CIA supplied went to fundamentalist Afghan leader Gulbeddin Hekmatyar"one of the most stridently anti-Western of the resistance leaders," according to Mary Ann Weavers May 1996 article in The Atlantic Monthly. Another arms customer was the blind Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, later convicted of involvement in the 1993 botched bombing of the World Trade Center. Oh, and Osama bin Laden, the man whom George W. Bush says was behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
During the Afghan war, the Saudis were, as they are today, doing Americas bidding on the world stage. The CIA-at the behest of a White House, Congress and American media completely united in helping the Afghan rebels-was calling the shots. It is a fact Rohrabacher himself has acknowledged in the recent past.
"I witnessed this in the White House when U.S. officials in charge of the military aid program to the mujahideen permitted a large percentage of our assistance to be channeled to the most anti-Western, nondemocratic elements of the mujahideen," said Rohrabacher in an April 14, 1999, official statement on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan.
Rohrabacher saw firsthand evidence to support his claim. In November 1988, having just been elected to Congress, Rohrabacher took off on his first trip to Afghanistan. The anti-Soviet war was still raging as Rohrabacher set off on a five-day hike with an armed mujahideen patrol from Pakistan into eastern Afghanistan.
"We at one point in that march came across a camp of tents," Rohrabacher said of his visit to Jalalabad, then under siege by the Afghan rebels. "I was told at that point I must not speak English for at least another three hours because the people in those tents were Saudi Arabians under a crazy commander named bin Laden and that bin Laden was so crazy that he wanted to kill Americans as much as he wanted to kill Russians."