Looking back on 9/11 and Initially going into Afghanistan…were we lied too?

It was well known that Bin Laden was in Afghanistan when 9/11 happened and was protected by the Taliban.

Once Bin Ladin was killed in Pakistan, there was no reason to continue a military presence in Afghanistan. Should have emptied the embassy then, and got the hell out of there.

Bin Laden was there and the hijackers trained there.

We should have broken things and left the literate fricks with mp3 players of "Mess around again. Find out Again" in each of their backwoods languages.

We should have been in and out in 4 months.

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Bin Laden was there and the hijackers trained there.

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And not a single Afghan person was in on the attack? Doesn’t that seem like a plan?

Saudi Arabia: “hey let’s use our CIA trained boy to train our boys over there so when the USA retaliates we’ll be in the clear”

Check out Bin Laden's relatives being flown out of the U.S. and you'll have your answer.

Pat Buchanan was against all of this 20 years ago and was savaged from the right for his position. Pat has not been wrong on anything in the last 40 years....and I have not always been a fan.

Things we do know:

The media lies
The intelligence agencies lies
The government never admits to mistakes
The government always covers up whatever they do and turns out spin
The media is infested with dems and ex bureaucrats

We’ll never know the truth, God knows these government bureaucrats hate republicans, I worked with some back in the day and they had a fierce hate foe W and any republican the same way they hate Trump. Norm Coleman came and made a speech to the peace corps, it was a good presentation, very nice and all, but afterwards I was shocked at the hate, and he was some rino from Minnesota

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When, of the 19 hijackers on 9/11, 15 of them were from Saudi Arabia, 2 were from the United Arab Emirates, 1 was from Lebanon, and 1 was from Egypt?

And we had just had Afghanistan as an ally a few years earlier?

We literally armed and trained the Taliban to fight Russia. Osama Bin Ladin was also from Saudi Arabia and trained by us, aka the CIA to kill Russians.



Something doesn’t add up looking back

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None of this matters because
1) The hijackers loyalty was to Osama Bin Ladin, not a nation or counrty.

2) Bin Ladin was Saudi Royalty but he had left the country and family and openly criticized them for their corporation with the west and in particular the infidel Americans.

3) Osama Bin Ladin sponsored terrorism inside Saudi Arabia against people he saw as traitors to Islam.

4) Bin Ladin was verified as living inside Afghanistan, AND had several verified Al Quada training camps inside Afghanistan.

5) Afganistan was no ally to the US. The US armed and trained the Afghan mujahideen to fight again the Soviat Army and twenty years later that training and those weapons were used by Bin Ladin and his Al Quida terrorist and the Taliban he supported against the US and US interests throughout the world.

6) We didn't arm and train the Taliban, as stated above we armed and trained the Afghan mujahideen in the 70's and 80's. The Taliban came about in the 90's as Bin Laden's anti-American jihad grew and gained support from hardline Islamic extremists in Afghanistan, Iran, the Philippines, North Africa/Libya and elsewhere.

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Something doesn’t add up looking back

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What doesn't add up in why Bush pivoted from Afghanistan to Iraq at a time in the war when we had Bin Ladin on the run and running out of places to hide and losing support in the area from the locals.

Going into Afghanistan was 100% the right thing to do. Opening a second front in Iraq and giving Bin Laden an escape route was a monumental mistake tat prolonged the war and cost many more lives to be lost.

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We literally armed and trained the Taliban to fight Russia.

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no, we trained mujahideen before taliban took over after war.

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Osama Bin Ladin was also from Saudi Arabia and trained by us

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he was backed by saudi arabia. pakistan backed groups of mujahideen as did us. you are generalizing everything which is lazy and urban myth. His group of mujahideen was not funded or trained by us.

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educate yourself. read disinformation by richard miniter.

now could some of the mujahideen join taliban after war? sure.

our allies were the northern alliance. not taliban after war. read up on it.

face it taliban harbored AQ in afghanistan. AQ ataccked us on 9-11. does not matter if the terrorists were from indonesia, nepal, or malaysia.

oh and yes frick the saudis.