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...Qaeda and Osama bin Laden This mission was supposed to be originally going after al-Qaeda. And this is a diversion. Osama bin Laden said a couple of years ago in a speech that his strategy was to bankrupt America, that's how they would defeat us, and he's using Iraq for that very purpose. We're playing straight into their hands...
...blamed Iran for the gas in 1988 and never condemned Iraq until months before the invasion. Such old and isolated instances were revisited to exaggerate the threat while the past few relatively quiet years in Iraq were ignored completely. In addition, links were made between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, leading to the unsubstantiated claim that Saddam Hussein was somewhat responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Anyone who spoke out against the claims of the White House was belittled and called irresponsible, unpatriotic and dangerous. Nowhere during the buildup to the war were counter arguments analyzed in public...
Finally, if there is any failure in the war on terror, it is a joint American-Pakistani failure. Didn’t the U.S. soldiers let a cornered Osama bin Laden escape from under their noses in Tora Bora in Nov. 2001? Who squandered the best opportunity to arrest him, the Pakistanis or the Americans...
...long, incompetent rule.There are many other pieces of evidence to support that Musharraf is not committed to fighting terrorism now, or if he ever was. Musharraf’s own speeches and words, such as, “[I am] not going around trying to locate Osama bin Laden and Zawahri, frankly” are the biggest confirmation of his indifference. In addition, Washington has been shocked by news reports that the majority of the funds given to Pakistan are not used for the War on Terror. This news is corroborated by widely available pictures of troops in the Federally...
...Moderates that should be condemning terrorism have a dilemma, too. What keeps otherwise moderate Pakistanis from denouncing extremist leaders such as Osama bin Laden is a deep-seated distaste for both Musharraf and the U.S. The President's call for "enlightened moderation" was well received in Washington, but in Pakistan, where his ham-fisted attempts to stay in power have earned him widespread opprobrium, it was perceived to be a cynical, and successful, bid for support from the West at the expense of his own people. "There has been a failure in our Islamic obligation to condemn people like Fazlullah...