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Originally Posted by simon
I don't see why it was useful for the US to have the Taliban around. I thought the Michael-Moore-approved hard-left view was that the US overthrew the Taliban not because of the 9/11 attacks, but in order to put the pipeline through Afghanistan
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Because dictators are generally easier to do business with. You cna buy them and are willing to supress any opposition.
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Originally Posted by simon
The factory was believed by the Americans to be a chemical weapons plant.
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Wrongly. Not that US will admit that.....
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Originally Posted by simon
It seems that it was actually making aspirin. I've never heard before that it was making anti-malaria medicine. You refer to a 'coincidence'. You think that Bill Clinton's real motivation was that he wanted to keep medicine from Africa?
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No, Clinton wasn't trying to keep medicine out of Africa. I said it was only
African factory making that drug. I guess bombing competion is as good way to get larger market share as any.
What I find very unusual is that Us retaliates for attacks on it's embassies with strikes agaisnt terrorists camps
and alledged chemical plant
on entirelly different continent and totally unconected. Coincidence?