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resident George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar.
"On 21 September 2001, the Taliban responded that if the United States could bring evidence that bin Laden was guilty, they would hand him over, stating there was no evidence in their possession linking him to the 11 September attacks."
"This counter offer was immediately rejected by the U.S. as insufficient."
And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban.
It is a mechanical fault of democracy itself, and not the
many leaders caught up in a democratic bureaucracy that
causes a country to stumble. A democracy is where the
government is run by all the people who live under it. To
have a true democracy, everyone must vote. People vote to
exercise their democratic rights; if only 70% vote, then
70% control 100% of the government. Voting without adequate
understanding and choosing candidates for the wrong reasons
are symptoms of voting for the sake of voting and not
taking an active interest in how our country is run.
Another problem with democracy is the
structure of any government's bureaucracy. Vote for a
party/candidate only in principle, because in practice,
they act completely the same. Imagine bureaucracy as a
great fast-moving train; even if another engineer takes
control, it is incredibly hard to make any large
adjustments without severely unstabilizing the train.
Similarly, it wouldn't matter if any political party is in
power, because any fundamental change would upset a lot of
people (one of the unwritten laws of politics: to make a
drastic change is to invite political suicide).
Originally posted by fapython
Democracy in my opinion is only a tool to control. The masses won't fight back if they "think" they have some power.
"On 21 September 2001, the Taliban responded that if the United States could bring evidence that bin Laden was guilty, they would hand him over, stating there was no evidence in their possession linking him to the 11 September attacks."
(CBS) Without evidence, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will not hand over Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan said Friday.
Originally posted by ConspiracyNut23
reply to post by Ownification
WoW! I was checking your sources for this quote:
"On 21 September 2001, the Taliban responded that if the United States could bring evidence that bin Laden was guilty, they would hand him over, stating there was no evidence in their possession linking him to the 11 September attacks."
And I couldn't help but notice how deceitful CBS was being with its article. Notice the headline: Taliban Won't Turn Over Bin Laden with the byline Fierce Fighting Rages Between Taliban And Northern Alliance. The first words in the article are:
(CBS) Without evidence, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will not hand over Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan said Friday.
Now, why wasn't the headline: Taliban Won't Turn Over Bin Laden Without Evidence??
Deliberate spin or shady journalism?
Also, the vast majority of the west still believes that Iraqi soldiers were forcibly taking babies out of incubators. A story wholly fabricated by public relations firm Hill & Knowlton.
[edit on 2/8/09 by ConspiracyNut23]