Afghanistan: Pakistan accused of backing Taliban

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Originally Posted by August

Bull. We had all the pretext we needed when Saddam shot at our aircraft patrolling the no fly zone in violation of the cease fire agreement.

Which had nothing to do with 9/11....
If everyone waged a full scale invasion under those kind of pretexts, Turkey and Greece would be at war as would North and South Korea, not to mention India and Pakistan and god knows who else, where incidents like that take place frequently.
And its pretty selective if you ask me. If it was Russia or china shooting at one our planes I dont think we would be quite so bold.

Originally Posted by August

Your feelings are laudable but how rotten would you feel if Saddam having been left in power had taken the revenge we both know he was itching for?

Thats very big if#, especially considering he had nothing much to take revenge with. WMDs my foot.

Either our intelligence got it wrong.
or Bush and Blair lied to us.

Take your pick.