Bush tactics spawned terrorism epidemic

[NVMojo]

The war on terror, five years on: an era of constant warfare
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul and Kim Sengupta
Published: 04 September 2006

Five years ago this week, the Taliban's al-Qa'ida allies made final preparations to launch devastating attacks on America that would precipitate the "war on terror," the US led invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.

Far from ending terrorism, George Bush's tactics of using overwhelming military might to fight extremism appear to have rebounded, spawning an epidemic of global terrorism that has claimed an estimated 72,265 lives since 2001, most of them Iraqi civilians.

The rest, some 30,626, according to official US figures, have been killed in a combination of terror attacks and counter-insurgency actions by the US and its allies. The figures were compiled by the US based National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (Mipt).

A US led-invasion swept away the Taliban regime in a matter of weeks, and did the same to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party in 2003, but far from bringing stability and democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq, the outcome has been one of constant warfare. Yesterday hundreds of Nato troops, backed by warplanes and helicopter gunships, were involved in the offensive on the area, southwest of Kandahar, that has been a centre of Taliban resistance.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1359854.ece

[neoblues]

1. Five years and some months ago...

Bush also broke off negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan over potentially building an Oil Pipeline across their country (it's more complex than that, but even so, the involvment of Enron is very interesting), and did so with a threat/promise along these lines... "we'll either carpet you in gold or carpet you in bombs". Apparently, they took him seriously.

Point being, that Bush and American corporations were involved with the terrorists even before 9/11, and appear to have provoked them prior to that date as well.

[NVMojo]

2. ...and blood of innocents drips from their hands today

[izzie]

3. 100 years of taking over countries has not worked for us

Blow back time.