Wolfowitz said going after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan would do no good

[Bandit]

"I fail to understand how anything done in Afghanistan could have prevented 911

killing a few relatively low level Al Quada would not have been a worthy thing to do." Paul Wolfowitz

This is what he said in today's hearing

If this is what they believed why did we go into Afghanistan and why are we there now? How can they fault Preisdent Clinton for not doing that?

[wryter2000]

1. Oh for pity's sake

OBL was there. What better target did they need?

[grannylib]

4. "The cost to benefit ratio..." per Rummy was not so hot...the camps were

just dirt and tents, and bouncing the rubble around would have accomplished nothing...
He said that attacks on the camps would have been ineffective because (paraphrasing here, can't remember exact quote) "people find out about these things, and they move."
Um...you mean, our intelligence services are giving away info? Or...they have better intel than we do, and know what we are going to do before we do it? Or...we bomb a camp, they move to a new location?

So, do nothing because something isn't perfect???


On edit: Rummy also mentioned the high cost of missiles, they're expensive, ya know??

[rucky]

2. We never really questioned Afghanistan

and we should've. but it still gets the brush over.

[hatrack]

3. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense - NOT!

What pathetic, defensive drivel.

[jean]

5. His tag team partner, Rumsfeld, said it was just blowing up tents & rubble

and not cost effective.

Rumsfeld brought Wolfowitz and Myers with, to bolster his testimony.

After hearing the brilliance and vision of William Cohen, Rumsfeld and his crew sounded so slow and stunted.

[maddezmom]

6. war on terror (Afghanistan) was the ticket to Iraq

Powell made the statement today, that the American people wouldn't understand an attack on Iraq. The US needed to go after the people responsible for 9/11. (paraphrased)

[pippin]

7. So wtf are we wasting

money,time and American lives there in the first place? What is this? Just another board game for these freeking PNAC types? :mad:

[keithyboy]

8. And ivading Iraq has done some good? The ME is in flames,

EU is scared shitless, and we here at home are waiting for the next shoe to drop.

[devilgrrl]

9. These assholes have an answer for everything, don't they?

:puke:

[jeanmarc]

10. Drugs vs, terra....FIGHT!!!!!...drugs wins!!!!!

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

"Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998."

Even though the Taliban were enemies in the War on Terra, they were allies on the war on drugs! Since neither war is likely to be won, who cares what choice you make. 9/11 happened? Oops! I guess they made the wrong choice.

We actually financed the terrorists.

[cosmicdot]

11. whatever, right Rumsfeld? right, Wolfowitz?

if only the Unocal pipeline deal had gone through
http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=13331

I'd still like to know where the $43 million Bush-Cheney sent Afghanistan in May 2001, went to.




"a US bomb flattened a flimsy mud-brick home in Kabul on Sunday blowing apart seven children as they ate breakfast with their father. The blast shattered a neighbour's house killing another two children …..the houses were in a residential area called Qalaye Khatir near a hill where the hard-line Taliban militia had placed an anti-aircraft gun."




Smoke rises after a U.S. airstrike on the village of Khanaqa, 34 miles from Kabul. American jets dropped dozens of bombs late yesterday and today on Taliban positions defending the Afghan capital. (AP photo)

http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm#24