The "REALLY TRUE" path to 911 (UK Guardian commentary)

[mod mom]

WOW, some powerful commentary on the "REALLY TRUE" Path to 911:



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The really true "Path to 9/11" should start at least as far back as 1953 when the CIA overthrew the nationalist government of Iran. Or perhaps 1918, when an earlier crusader for "world democracy", Woodrow Wilson, first started carving up the world into protectorates and fiefdoms of western powers. Or even further back, the year that the British Government backed the extremist Muslim fanatic house of Saud to take Arabia away from the Turks.

It would go through the CIA backed overthrow of the government of Iraq. It would go through 30 years of CIA organized liquidation, terror and murder of all secular opposition to US and European domination of the Middle East and north Africa. It would go through 40 years of US arming, funding and support of Israel. It would go through the funding and organization of extreme fundamentalist Islamic schools in Pakistan by the CIA as part of its plan of fomenting discontent in Islamic Soviet republics.

It would certainly go through the US/CIA support for radical Muslims in their war to overthrow the secular, pro-women government supported by the Soviets in Afghanistan, and to expel Soviet forces. It would go through financial (if not open political) support for the Taliban in the wake of that war. It would just as certainly go through the massive deployment of US military force in Saudi Arabia and the continued support for that brutal and repressive regime.

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http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_pikser/2006/09/the_real_road_to_911.html

oops...forgot author profile:

Jeremy Pikser is the co-writer of the film Bulworth, for which he won the LA Critics Award, as well as Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. He also wrote The Lemon Sisters and worked on the script and production of Reds. He is currently working with John Cusack and Mark Leyner on a satire about US policy in the Middle East and has just finished a screenplay about the CIA coup that overthrew the government of Guatemala in 1954. He is one of the authors of the Not in Our Name statement of conscience.

[snappyturtle]

1. No, no, no! They hate us

because of our freedom! :sarcasm:

Thanks mod mom! I'm going to print out the article and when I get brain tied and need facts at my fingertips---voila---I'll have it.

[mirandapriestly]

2. I'm not sure that's still the REALLY REALLY true path, but

it's a lot more intelligent than most of the emotionalized propaganda we read or see. Also the comparison of the Reagan docudrama; it was more accurate than what we have been lead to believe as I recall. And I'm not sure the Russians really had women's concerns at heart when they invaded Afghanistan, maybe I have underestimated them.
Good find, although this kind of writing would have been called "anti American" 5 years ago.

[malaise]

3. Great read

it was amazing to watch Cheney mention the Russians in Afghanistan this morning and mention the Mujhadeen but not their financiers, the US government.

[Monkeyman]

4. Left a Comment Lol

Hit back on the bullshit movie .

[Wilber_Stool]

5. It would certainly go through

the US/CIA support for radical Muslims in their war to overthrow the secular, pro-women government supported by the Soviets in Afghanistan, and to expel Soviet forces.

This is something I remember hearing awile back. It was on NPR and I wasn't paying much attention but I thought I heard that the Soviets did not invade Afganistan but were invited in to help rebuild the country. We just used it as an oportunity to cost the Soviets money. I was never able to confirm it googling.
I think I might try again.