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 Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban??? |
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Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.
That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.
Why doesn't Bush just give millions to junkies?
Makes as much sense as giving it to DEAth.
In the name of the drug war all is well.
I wonder what those Taliban did with $43 million 4 months before 9/11/01?
DdC • 6/14/06; 2:35:59 PM #
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| Quote: | From Allan:
D- actually I believe it wasn't cash but along the lines of agricultural supplies... tractors maybe? Anyway, it wasn't cash: |
US MA: Did the White House Give the Taliban $43 Million?
The truth is contained in the transcript of a briefing given by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who on May 17 announced the $43 million grant; it was aimed at alleviating a famine that threatened the lives of four million Afghans. Far from handing the money over to the Taliban, Powell went out of his way to criticize them, and to explain the steps the United States was taking to keep the money out of their hands.
" We distribute our assistance in Afghanistan through international agencies of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations, " Powell said.
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Allan,
I remember McCaffrey and then Walters/Bush negociating with the Taliban not to
supply farm equipment, but to purchase the poppy crop with cash and diverting it
from Europe. The spin that it was for a grant and farm tools and growing wheat and
tulips. Like the scud missiles RaygunsBush gave Osama to fight the Russians. Or
Rummy supporting Sadamn over the Iotolla. Always comes back to bite us.
It was a common discussion that most fighting the Ganjawar thought was just one
more stupid act. No one at the time mentioned anything about the Taliban attacking
us, just it was a stupid idea to buy the crop. For cash.
After 9-11 I would assume they would spin, Pubdate: Thu, 27 Sep 2001. Yet for 4
months no one thought it was something needing covered up. Actually the entire
summer of 2001 was protesting the WTO including the Trade Centers and
Anarchists have been saying to bomb the pentagon forever, It wasn't a surprise
to me so much that these places were attacked.
But who did it? I don't even believe the Taliban were involved. Just scapegoats.
Actually the documentaries I've seen, I'm convinced it was the same Fascists
perpetuating the Ganjawar, global warming pushing Pharmdrugs and poisoning crops.
The truth is contained in the transcript of a briefing given by Secretary of State
Colin Powell? Too easy and after the fact. You realize how many oxymorons are in
that one statement? "Truth & Powell" Who's kid in the FCC set up the media
takeover?
Why would all the commentators of all "ideological stripes" even be discussing
it if it didn't happen? Especially Bush supporters.
I think Robert Scheer and others wrote the story and at the time the only ones
pissed off about it were Ganja advocates and who cares about them? Then after
9-11 they needed to mop up and Robert Scheer decided to leave it as it was,
while others "served their prez" Programmed news isn't new.
Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
The Taliban fanatics, economically and diplomatically isolated, are at the breaking
point, and so, in return for a pittance of legitimacy and cash from the Bush administration, they have been willing to appear to reverse themselves on the growing of opium.
The Taliban may suddenly be the dream regime of our own war drug war zealots,
but in the end this alliance will prove a costly failure. Our long sad history of signing up dictators in the war on drugs demonstrates the futility of building a foreign policy on a domestic obsession.
"Was Bush Sr. in Business with the Bin Laden Family?"
"More on Bush Financial Ties to Bin Laden,"
"Secret Money." by Alternet
Excerpts from book on flow of terrorist money
"Dirty Money" by Alternet
Excepts from book on flow of terrorist money
CORPORATE PRESS ALTERING STORIES??
A number of readers note variations in and alterations of press accounts as time progressed "Conflicting Media Accounts on the possible shooting down of plane over PA; BBC changes story,"
BUSH's LIES.... He can't remember them all
The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection?
US CA: Column: Bush's Faustian Deal With The Taliban map inc
U.N. Panel Accuses Taliban of Selling Drugs
To Finance War and Train Terrorists May 25, 2001
The panel noted that Afghanistan supplied as much as 79 percent of the world's opium in 1999. Between October 2000 and March 2001, the panel said 12,980 pounds of heroin were seized in Europe, the majority from Afghanistan. It said that indicates the Taliban still has large quantities of the drugs in stock.
Bush Gives Taliban $43 Million To Fight Opium
The Bush administration has given Afghanistan $43 million including $10 million for “other livelihood and food security programs,” a reference to the ruling Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation that dramatically changed the economy of the war-torn nation. The poppy is the source of opium and the crop had provided significant revenues to Afghan farmers. The aid was described as humanitarian.
In addition to being an ally in the U.S. war against drugs, the Taliban also has banned the education of girls and women. It has banned women from professions and from most outside-the-home employment, even with international relief agencies. It has banned women from seeing male doctors and it prevents women from practicing medicine.
Colin Powell, in announcing the gift, said the administration hoped that the Taliban “will act on a number of fundamental issues that separate us: their support of terrorism, their violation of internationally recognized human rights--especially their treatment of women and girls--and their refusal to resolve Afghanistan's civil war through a negotiated settlement.” He also called on other nation's to join the U.S. with “dispatch and energy.”
Source: Women's Enews
Published: May 26, 2001
Contact: editors@womensenews.org * Website
The Smack Daddies By Dr. SUSAN BLOCK
Bush's Taliban Drug Deal April 21, 2004
So, in Spring of 2001, when Dubya did the dirtiest dope deal of his life in the Land of the Taliban Caliban Man, I had to ask why. Why? Not that I (or Scheer) got any answers. But now that we know that this dollars-for-drug-control transaction was made with the future mid-wives of 9/11, I think we ought to ask why again. Was it some kind of continuation of America's support of fundamentalism in the region, a vestige of the Cold War? Did Bush forget that the Taliban were blatantly "coddling" Osama, the black sheep of that nice bin Laden family that did so much business with his own family?
Direct Democracy By Evan Ravitz
Darkness Before Dawn November 6, 2001
But Congress has given military aid to the Afghans since 1980 and as recently as May of this year sent the Taliban $43 million to "fight drugs."
The Bush-Bin Laden Connection by HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Bush Gave Afghanistan $132 Million To Date This Year
TASHKENT, Aug 08, 2001 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- The George W. Bush
administration is to provide additional financial assistance to the people of Afghanistan. The sum will amount to 6.5 million dollars, as offcially reported by the information department of the Uzbek Embassy in the United States. The total volume of U.S. financial help to Afghanistan will amount to over 132 million dollars this year. Thus, the USA will become the world's biggest financial source for Afghanistan."
Bush Gives Afghanistan/Taliban $43 Million In Spite Of Colin Powell's Statement Taliban "Support Terrorism"
(WOMENSENEWS)-Sept. 11, 2001
"George W. Bush's Dubious Friends"
Afghanistan Leads The World In Heroin Production
Sept. 11, 2001. The Bush administration has given Afghanistan $43 million including $10 million for ?other livelihood and food security programs,? a reference to the ruling Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation that dramatically changed the economy of the war-torn nation. The poppy is the source of opium and the crop had provided significant revenues to Afghan farmers. The aid was described as humanitarian. In addition to being an ally in the U.S. war against drugs...(WOMENSENEWS)
Strange Ally in the War on Drugs
By Sean Duffy . Edited by Lorna Tychostup
On November 17, 2001, Laura Bush made history by delivering the weekly radio address, normally given by the President. Her topic, the horrible mistreatment of women by the Taliban, was well deserving of the attention it received by the first lady.
But before our national tragedy of September 11, the Bush administration, in spite of the well-known treatment of Afghan women by the Taliban, approved of the regime’s opium cultivation ban. In recognition of its newfound ally in the War on Drugs, the Bush Administration, through Colin Powell in the State Department, authorized a $43 million-aid package on May 17, 2001.
Photo by Alan Pogue
and even by the opposition bashing Robert Scheer for exposing the
gift, not denying it. Spin is spin, reality states the Taliban were in
control of 90% of Afghanistan and humanitarian aid was for farmers
supplementing them for not growing poppies. Humanitarian aid or cash
for stash, call it what you want but the end result is the Taliban got
$43 million from Bush several months before 9-11.
6/12 - Brendan: Scheer propaganda
Can we say that the drug war had no relationship to this decision? Absolutely not. Powell acknowledged in his statement the administration's desire to help farmers hurt by the ban on poppy cultivation and its support for the ban. But it is unfair to omit details of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, in which more than one million people are estimated to be at risk, and to dismiss any humanitarian motivation.
But it is unfair to omit details of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan? The crisis in Afghanistan is from farmers not growing their #1 cash crop... Opium. Then getting supplimented for not growing. Call it a Reward or just another bogus plot by DEAth? Legalize it and put them out of business!
Heroin prescription scheme call
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| Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: Robert Scheer on Playing President |
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Veteran Journalist Robert Scheer on Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush
We speak with veteran journalist and author Robert Scheer about his new book, "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush." [includes rush transcript]
The Vietnam, War, North Korea, The Cold War and Presidential Power. These are just a few of the topics that veteran journalist Robert Scheer has reported on in his long career. From 1964 to 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. From 1976 to 1993 he served as a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and in 1993 Scheer launched a nationally syndicated column based at the LA Times where he was named a contributing editor.
Robert Scheer's column ran weekly for 12 years until November of last year when he was fired. Scheer said publicly that he believed his firing was due to ideological reasons and his steady criticism of the Bush administration At the time, Scheer wrote on the Huffington Post blog that "The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher."
Scheer's column is now based at the San Francisco Chronicle. He also recently launched the political blog, "Truthdig.com." His latest book is called "Playing President: "My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush."
* Robert Scheer, journalist and author of several books. His latest is titled "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush."
RUSH TRANSCRIPT
Excerpted ROBERT SCHEER: First of all, if the war on terror is endless, you could forget about democracy. If it's against any target he mentions, if you could spread it -- and you never win it, which is, I guess, clearly what’s involved here, because Iraq, of course, had nothing to do with Afghanistan, Saddam Hussein was an opponent of bin Laden, bin Laden did not have a base in Iraq. So this guy takes us to war in Iraq, which is really the irritant. Now, he doesn’t pursue the situation in Afghanistan. In fact, he coddled the Taliban before 9/11. In my book, I have columns. I wrote a column in May of ‘01, blasting the Bush administration for ignoring the Taliban. I happen to be one of those in the antiwar part of things who actually supported Clinton when he sent the cruise missiles in to take out bin Laden. I had thought we had the right to use Special Forces to go in for bin Laden. He had attacked American embassies. He attacked ships. And so, I didn't see any need to coddle the Taliban.
Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Bush Administration Crimes Against Humanity
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: Taliban Do What 'Just Say No' Could Not |
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U.N. Panel Accuses Taliban of Selling Drugs To Finance War and Train Terrorists
Author: Edith M. Lederer
Source: Associated Press May 25, 2001
Newshawk:freedomtoexhale
A U.N. panel accused Afghanistan's Taliban rulers Friday of selling opium and heroin to finance its war against northern rebels and to train terrorists. It called for the United Nations to monitor the drug trade as part of an existing arms embargo.
In a report to the Security Council, the five-member panel questioned the sincerity of the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, when he banned the cultivation last July of poppy, the raw material used to make heroin and opium.
The report said the Taliban was stockpiling the drugs, suggesting it only halted production in order to keep opium and heroin prices from plummeting.
According to the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, Afghanistan's opium production was about 2,500 tons in 1998, 4,600 tons in 1999, and 3,100 tons in 2000.
"If Taliban officials were sincere in stopping the production of opium and heroin, then one would expect them to order the destruction of all stocks existing in areas under their control," the report said.
The panel, established to make recommendations on how best to monitor a U.N. arms embargo and the closure of terrorist training camps, said it was essential to look into the illicit drug trade because drug money was being used to buy weapons and "finance the training of terrorists and support the operations of extremists in neighboring countries and beyond."
Laili Helms of New Jersey, an adviser to the Taliban in the United States, said most drugs go from the area controlled by the anti-Taliban opposition in the north to Tajikistan and Russia and most arms come in through the same route. There is no arms embargo on the opposition forces.
"I think their recommendations reflect the hypocrisy with which the United Nations has dealt with Afghanistan," she said.
The Security Council froze Taliban assets and imposed an international flight ban on Ariana airlines in November 1999 to pressure the hardline militia to turn over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is charged in the twin U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in August 1998. The council then imposed an arms embargo on the Taliban, which controls about 95 percent of Afghanistan, in January.
The panel called for the establishment of international teams in countries neighboring Afghanistan to beef-up monitoring of the sanctions and a new U.N. office to oversee sanctions enforcement, possibly headquartered in Vienna.
The report said fuel for aircraft and armored vehicles should be included in the arms embargo.
In enforcing the arms embargo, the panel called for monitoring the movement of acetic anhydride, a key ingredient to turn opium into heroin.
The panel noted that Afghanistan supplied as much as 79 percent of the world's opium in 1999.
Between October 2000 and March 2001, the panel said 12,980 pounds of heroin were seized in Europe, the majority from Afghanistan. It said that indicates the Taliban still has large quantities of the drugs in stock.
The Security Council is expected to consider the report's recommendations in early June, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
Extra: Bush Gives Taliban $43 Million To Fight Opium:
The Bush administration has given Afghanistan $43 million including $10 million for “other livelihood and food security programs,” a reference to the ruling Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation that dramatically changed the economy of the war-torn nation. The poppy is the source of opium and the crop had provided significant revenues to Afghan farmers. The aid was described as humanitarian.
In addition to being an ally in the U.S. war against drugs, the Taliban also has banned the education of girls and women. It has banned women from professions and from most outside-the-home employment, even with international relief agencies. It has banned women from seeing male doctors and it prevents women from practicing medicine.
Colin Powell, in announcing the gift, said the administration hoped that the Taliban “will act on a number of fundamental issues that separate us: their support of terrorism, their violation of internationally recognized human rights--especially their treatment of women and girls--and their refusal to resolve Afghanistan's civil war through a negotiated settlement.” He also called on other nation's to join the U.S. with “dispatch and energy.”
Source: Women's Enews
Published: May 26, 2001
Contact: editors@womensenews.org * Website
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