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That's true. But you must choose sometimes the lesser evil... and that's not saddam, osama or NKorea. Also USA policy towards CIA sponsored terrorism has changed in the last years.
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So you would rather (for example as in chile) have a dictatorship that killed over 30,000 people to a democracy?
What gives American government the right to interfere with the legitimate democratic process in other countries? [/QUOTE]
Nobody, and I am saying the whole Chile business was a crime. But Saddam isn't a democracy, and there are no "legitimate democratic processes" in Iraq.
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Afghanistan is NOT at peace, the warlords are now engageing in Internecine conflict, women are still opressed and forced to wear burlkhas in many areas still, Cable T.V has been bannedin Kabul for being "unislamic" and Of course we have the fact that the farmers are now growing opium again, Which will of course become heroin supplied to America and the west in the end.
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As to the opium, it's the only way farmers have to survive. Nobody compels the western junkie to buy heroin and similar...
As to Afghanistan, note that the war started a legitimate democratic process... peace will be achieved once a strong state has been estabilished, with the help of the UN peace force.
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NOte also, That Since america killed more innocent civlians in afghanistan than died in sept 11th, does that not make it rather hypocratical?
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War is a shitty thing. They attack you, you have to defend - that means dead soldiers and collateral damage. Osama attacked the USA, not the opposite - NATO art 5 was called-. Osama was sponsored by the Afghan government, hence the Afghan government committed an act of war.
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Freedom fighters or Terrorists?
It's only a matter of semantics, The Mujaheddin became the Taleban.
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That's WRONG. Only a small percentage of the Mujahdeen became Taliban. Remember the northern alliance? Do you think it's just semantics that they, fellow Mujhadeen, revolted AGAINST the Taliban regime? Do you think it's a coincidence that on day 7/11/2001 the northern alliance general was killed, just two days before 9/11?
Also, freedom fighters hit enemy soldiers, terrorists DELIBERATELY hit civilians
[ 01-25-2003, 12:44 PM: Message edited by: B_part ]