FLIP-FLOP: Bush Admin Announces New Afghan Appeasement Policy!

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In a stunning flip-flop from their pre-election rhetoric, the Bush Administration appears to have begun a new appeasement policy for Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.

The BBC is reporting the U.S. amabassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has announced in a recent Kabul press conference that Taliban fighters who give up their arms and pledge their allegiance would be allowed to go free:

It is not clear on what legal basis Mr Khalilzad, in his role as a representative of a foreign country, made his offer to the Taleban.

“There’s no need to fight, to stay in the mountains,” he said. “Afghanistan has entered a new stage.”

Taleban fighters should pledge allegiance to the government of President Hamid Karzai.

“In return, they will not be punished,” Mr Khalilzad promised.

The “wildly successful” war in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops are still stationed, began well over three years ago.

Neither Mullah Omar, the head of the Taliban regime at the time of the U.S.-lead invasion, nor Osama bin Laden, the purported target of that attack have been either captured or killed as of this posting.

Appeaser George W. Bush, who once claimed that we would capture bin Laden “dead or alive”, has more recently stated that he is “truly…not that concerned about him”.

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    Sanity Czech said on 12/2/2004 @ 8:02pm PT: [Permalink]

    Why not let the Taliban go? … they never did anything to USA … but they got blamed for things … creating a pretext…

    USA planned to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11 … it had nothing to do with terror … it was about a natural gas pipeline … from the Caspian Sea to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan … UNOCAL wanted to build it … ENRON wanted to burn the gas … Pakistan said "ok" … but the Taliban said "no" … so Bush tried to buy them off … and they refused … that was their big mistake … none of the other things they did seemed to matter … but this was ENRON…

    So 9/11 happened … an ‘inside job’ if ever there was one … thus began the so-called ‘war on terror’ … and now … USA controls the Afghani government … USA has bases and troops there … UNOCAL is getting their pipeline … and ENRON is getting their gas … meanwhile the pretext has been switched and Bush uses it against Iraq … another war that was planned long before 9/11…

    The current USA government will never hurt Mullah Mohammed Omar or Osama bin Laden … they could have done so many times … it helps to have friends in exotic places … especially if they pose as your enemies … this new Afghani policy exposes the lies told in 2001 … again! … the liars rely on the public to have short memories … and many do, but not all … so the liars need to cover their tracks … if forced to leave office now, they would surely wind up in prison…

    All the more reason to make sure every vote counts.

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