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From: Rowland Scherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Forwarded to Rhetoric as a courtesy -- a response to article in PNEWS-L - See end for additional comments....) Dear Hank Roth: I think you are missing a key point. When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, there was NO heroin. It was illegal to grow it. Now that we've ousted the Taliban for the most part, and also for the most part ,OCCUPY Afghanistan--there is a bumper crop of poppy/heroin coming along. Can't our troops find it, or are we PROTECTING it? I have long thought that the Bush cabal (from George HW Bush's tenure in the CIA) was involved with drugs. The Sandinista "freedom fighters" and the empty cargo planes coming back loaded with cocaine; etc. The beef with former CIA mole Noriega was a blown cocaine deal. There really is too much crime perpetrated by the Bushies and other neocons to deal with. Most will never come to light. Every day a new vicissitude. Not enough (honest) people to staff enough commissions to oversee it all. Alas. Woe is us. Rowland Scherman (This is a very important element which is often overlooked and covered elsewhere in several articles posted to PNEWS-L -- see the PNEWS-L archives at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/pnews-l.html I've also subscribed you to our discussion list for PNEWS-L (RHETORIC). You can post direct using [EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Hank) > Wars That Could Have Been Prevented > > The war against the Taliban could have been prevented. The capture of > Osama bin Laden might have been accomplished -- if the U.S. president > George W. Bush had been willing conclude negotiations with the Taliban. > The predicate for war was contingent on the proposition that there was no > nonviolent means to apprehend Osama bin Laden. However, this was not true. > > There was a Taliban agreement with Pakistani Islamic parties, the > Jamaat-i-Islami and the Jamaar Ulema-e-Islam for the extradition to > Pakistan of Osama bin Laden, where he would stand trial for 9/11. The > agreement included provisions for his house arrest in Peshawar and for > Osama to be tried before an international court -- subject to Shar'ia law. > > "The first stage of the negotiations was apparently carried out in > Islamabad on 29 September (2001), when Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, the > Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan, met Qazi Hussain Ahmad, leader of the > Jamaat-i-Islami, and Hamid Gul, former director of Pakistan's powerful > Inter-Service Intelligence agency. The negotiations were concluded in > Kandahar on 1 October, when Mr Qazi,and Maaulana Fazlur Rahman, head of > the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam, met the Suprme leader of the Taliban, Mullah > Omar, who accepted theproposal -- `which had bin Laden's approval'. > (Milan Rai, "War Plan Iraq" Verso - 2002) > > "One key element of the agreement was that the international tribunal > could decide either to try him on the spot or to hand Mr bin Laden over to > America. This was a new departure for the Taliban. Up until 1 October, the > Talibanhad been offering to negotiate bin Laden's extradition to a third > country, but had refused to contemplate the posiblity of handing him over > to Washington." (Rai) > > "President George W. Bush said `I gave them a fair chance'. The reality is > that he rejected negotiations and nonviolent alternatives to war. Rather > than publicising and supporting the agreement to extradite bin Laden, the > US and Britain ignored and may have helped to destroy the 1 October > initiative. For their part, the media effectively suppressed evidence of > the Taliban's offers to extradite Mr bin Laden, and distored the Taliban's > position, thereby making war seem nature and inevitable. It was neither." > (Rai) > > The Americans would have had Osama and the war would have been avoided. > American and Afghan and foreign born fighters could have been spared. > Since there was no WMD in Iraq that war could also have been avoided. > There had been a number of offers from the Taliban and also from Saddam > Hussein to avoid those wars. George Bush wanted HIS war. He missed it in > the Guard, just as he missed his duty in the National Guard but now he > could play solder with tens of thousands of lives which have been lost > (and that is a very small figure for the actual number of dead and > maimed). The war criminal may be Osama bin Laden, but George Bush is also > responsible for even more deaths than bin Laden with his irresponsible and > avoidable military adventures. > > Hank Roth > http://pnews.org/ > --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=====OO================================================= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal ============================================================= \_/ \_/
