Originally Posted by: RaskolnikovAs did Russia, France, Germany, North Korea, China and virtually anybody else who was in the arms business.[/QUOTE]

Does that make it right then? no one helped saddam more than the US back then, ask rumsfeld, saddams best friend in the 80's. :p


[QUOTE=Raskolnikov]Correction:

The CIA funneled money into Afghanistan by giving it to the Pakistanis. The Pakistanis picked who the money went to.

I really fail to see how giving money to a people who truely are fighting for their freedom is a bad thing. Our sin here was not standing by them for the rebuilding process (and thus allowing the events that gave the Talaban control to take place).

So it's ok to just give money to anyone who says they're fighting for freedom? Alot of the "freedom fighters" were criminals, warlords,, taleban etc. back then. During the US-afghan war, the people paid by the US to fight the taleban and al-qaeda were criminals, warlords, rapists, drug barons, u name it.