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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:27 PM
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U.S. OK'd plan to topple Taliban a day before 9/11
WASHINGTON - One day before the Sept. 11 attacks, senior Bush administration officials agreed that the United States would try to overthrow Afghanistan's Taliban rulers if a final diplomatic push to expel Osama bin Laden from the country failed, a federal panel reported Tuesday.

The independent commission reviewing the attacks also said in a preliminary report that in the years before the attacks, the Clinton and Bush administrations chose to use diplomatic rather than military options, which allowed bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders to elude capture.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4585010/
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Dookus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:30 PM
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1. If this were true
wouldn't the administration have been shouting it from the rooftops for the past two and a half years?
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:30 PM
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2. So we were going to invade anyway?
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:30 PM
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3. CYA formality.
bushler knew the operation was going down the next day.
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-04 01:30 PM
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4. Dupe
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