Proof? AFAIK you're just repeating a leftist myth. The Bush regime never directly or indirectly funded the Taliban.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Yet the Bush Administration did fund the Taliban the summer prior to the > 9/11 attacks....hmmm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 9:17 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Controversy swells as Obama supports Ground Zero mosque > > > Actually the US never funded the Taliban or Al Queda during the Soviet > occupation. For one thing the Taliban did not exist at the time. The > Taliban was formed after the Soviet, then the American withdrawals > from Afghanistan in the mid 1990's. > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "And somehow the Bush administration missed all that when they sent him > out >> to engage is dialog with Muslim countries on behalf of the US?" >> >> So what? At one time, the US funded Osama Bin Laden in his fight against >> the USSR. >> >> >> "Maybe I'm totally wrong though and he is really a secret fundamentalist > who >> has just been broadly advocating for peace and tolerance for all these > years >> as a clever disguise for his true purpose." >> >> Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Here is one interpretation of Rauf's book. > It >> is not my opinion, but I find it interesting. >> >> >> Raufs book has two different titles, one for non-Muslims and one for >> Muslims. >> >> In English, it is called Whats Right With Islam: A New Vision For Muslims >> and the West. >> >> But in Muslim-ruled Malaysia a country whose language Rauf knows well >> since he has spent a great deal of time there the book was published as > A >> Call To Prayer From the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the > Heart >> of America Post-9/11. >> >> The word rubble stands out. It means wreckage reduced to rubbish. Trash. >> Garbage. >> >> An Islamic call to prayer is made by a muezein, the Muslim who ritually >> calls the faithful to prayer. The muezein issues his call from a tall >> minaret, high above the rest of the world. Now we get an image of Rauf in >> the position of a muezein standing tall in his fifteen-story mosque > looking >> down at the rubble of the World Trade Center, the buildings reduced to >> rubbish by his own religious group (although he has denied that Muslims >> perpetrated the 9/11 attacks). >> >> The image is of conquest Islam over the West. If Rauf is indeed a > bridge >> builder, as he calls himself, we must question where the bridge is going. >> Is it towards Islamic dominance over non-Muslims? >> >> >> >> J >> >> - >> >> Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with >> power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - >> Thomas Jefferson on gov >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
