1981..Robert Gates invents Al Qeada to fight Russia.

[lib2DaBone]

2009.. Robert Gates is Secreary of Defense, appointed by Obama

2010...Al Qeada shows up everywhere the Oil Companies need Troops. Booga Booga

2010...Americans are Pissed off at being lied to

2011..America connects the dots..

[Oregone]

1. There are more dots than oil

The US has a bloated monster of a war machine, which acts, objectively, as a siphon of public funds to private shareholders of defense contractors.

For decades, the Cold War and demagoguery provided reasoning to rob the treasury from the people. When the wall went down, that reason disintegrated.

But post-9-11 thinking justifies keeping the bloated monster alive. The reasoning shifted from ensured nuclear destruction to brown skinned malcontent misfits who can't figure out how to ignite their underwear.

What a joke. You are all the punchline

[lib2DaBone]

4. Very Well Said

[TheBigotBasher]

10. Absolutely right.

America objects to giving people decent standards of income protection against poverty, in case they spend it on alcohol, but few have any objections to spending more than EVERY other Country put together on arms?

WTF?

[Captain Hilts]

2. It was a good idea at the time. nt

[baldguy]

3. Bill Casey, not Robert Gates.

Reagan's evil old CIA chief.

[leveymg]

6. Go back even further: Zibgniew Brzezinski came up with that brilliant flash before 1979

Brzezinski "knowingly increased the probability that they (the Soviet Union) would invade" Afghanistan by supporting Afghan rebels before the invasion and drawing the Soviets into an "Afghan trap".

Well, Zibg, it looks like the Afghan Trap got us, too, in the end.

[roamer65]

8. Bingo...you and I posted nearly same time.

We should post the Brzezinski-Bin Laden photo, eh?

[leveymg]

9. Here it is. Osama looks every inch the British Staff Officer in that one.

Hmm . . . who put a Polish cavalry officer and a British Colonial Irregular in charge? What a recipe for disaster.

[roamer65]

11. Good job on finding it.

Doesn't Osama look cute in the Pak military uniform?:sarcasm:

[leveymg]

12. He was the head of Saudi paramilitary forces, you know. The ISI officer's dress fits him.

Was a lot more than a crazy rich boy playing Jihad. We continued to treat him as a ranking Saudi intel asset until the East Africa Embassy bombings in '98. Even then, we continued running his forces against the Russians and Serbs in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and Dagestan. We continued his services right through 09.11.01, in fact.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Creating Terror by Nafeez Ahmed...

What we call "al Qaeda" was used extensively in the 1990s to advance US geopolitical interests in the former Soviet Union...

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/23955

[roamer65]

7. A good chunk of this crap goes back to Zbigniew Brzezinski...

Carter's national security advisor. He was one of the early neocon crowd and started agitating insurrection in Afghanistan BEFORE the Soviets invaded in 1979. The goal was to suck the Soviets into a Vietnam-style conflict in Afghanistan, by shipping weapons and support through Pakistan. We are seeing the blowback from this plan to this day.