Bush's Faustian Deal With The Taliban Prior To 9-11
Letter to the Editor:
Considering that just months prior to the 9-11 terrorist attacks our President,
George W. Bush, gave the Taliban $43 million of our taxpayer's money to help
them "fight the war on drugs," making the U.S. the main sponsor of the
Taliban, it is obvious he cared nothing for those heavily oppressed men,
women, and children of that country and should not now be rewarded for freeing
them from the very rogue regime he used our taxpayer's money to support just
months before. It is also apparent Bush failed to comprehend the obvious
danger he was placing our country in by financially supporting the most
fanatical anti-American government in the world which harbored the most
fanatical anti-American terrorist group in the world.
In a commentary by Robert Scheer about this Faustian deal Bush made with
the Taliban, which appeared in the Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001, on page A15,
(see May 22, 2001, commentary by Robert Scheer)
the pull quote says in big letters, "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" -- prophetic words about our disastrous Bush
administration.
Now that Bush is finished funding the worst terrorist attack ever against the
U.S., he has turned his efforts toward abating the civil rights of guests who
visit our country with his threat of secret military tribunals. When will our
president's reign of terror end?
-David W. Deley
May 22, 2001, commentary by Robert Scheer
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