Missing episodes - could be worse...

[Stuart Douglas]

Guest-Wright said:

Oh, where do I begin?
First off, the media was reporting on the Taliban's attrocities TEXTbeforeTEXT Duh-bya decided to run for office. Trust me, the US media isn't that keen of Bush, unless you're counting Fox News (run by his couisn Roger Ailes).
Which media are you basing your claims on, by the way? The conspiracy theorists that appear on Art Bell and George Norey 's (sp) radio shows? Is this what the BBC is reporting as fact? Mabye Bill O'Reiley is right about the Beeb after all. And who do you think crashed those planes into the WTC then?

Hey, don't involve the BBC - it remained as impartial as possible throughout, just as it should.

For Taliban atrocities pre-Dubya, just pick up a handful of copies of most leading western papers of the time and read. The Times in London featured a particularly well written series of articles a few years back regarding the Afghan authorities torturing children which sticks in my mind for some reason.

Stuart

[dubs again]

That explains a lot - so the Taliban were in charge of the A-R archive as well then...

[Wright Blan]

Guest-Lance said:

Arabs and Egyptians wasn't it?
certainly was not Iraqis or Aghanistanis

Osama isn't from Afghanistan, either. What's your point?

[Lance]

Guest-Wright said:

Osama isn't from Afghanistan, either. What's your point?

So if Osama had been hidden.training in the wilds of Canada, Bush would have found it appropriate to blow up Canada ? thats my point

[Mark Boulton]

This is Missing Episodes, not Private Eye

[Deleted]

Yes, I think this is going *way* too OT.

[Wright Blan]

Guest-Lance said:

So if Osama had been hidden.training in the wilds of Canada, Bush would have found it appropriate to blow up Canada ? thats my point

Look, if Canada were overtly giving aid, confort, and refuge to Osama and his motley crue, it would have deserved to get bombed.
And don't get on here acting like the Taliban didn't know that Bin Laden was comitting or aiding in the comitting of international acts of terrorism (like the WTC/Pentagon attacks). Or that they were an innocent, peace loving group of cherubs, 'cause they weren't. They treated women worse than garbage, persucited Christians, and basically stepped on the Afghan people's rights.

[Lance]

Guest-Wright said:

Look, if Canada were overtly giving aid, confort, and refuge to Osama and his motley crue, it would have deserved to get bombed.
And don't get on here acting like the Taliban didn't know that Bin Laden was comitting or aiding in the comitting of international acts of terrorism (like the WTC/Pentagon attacks). Or that they were an innocent, peace loving group of cherubs, 'cause they weren't. They treated women worse than garbage, persucited Christians, and basically stepped on the Afghan people's rights.

Does Osama actually exist? (think about it!,he only turns up at American Elections as the boogie man)
It would be quite possible for him to have training camps in Afghanistan without any locals knowing about it.
IRA terrorists were being aided and abetted by Americans . How many have they murdered and crippled ? Does that give Britain the right to blow up Boston?
Of course not because America is always right ! George Bush is God's right hand man on Earth! So nobody questions America America rules the world! and dont anyone forget it.

[Charles Roberts]

Okay, I agree, this has gotten seriously off-topic. However, in response to the "who crashed the planes?" question..... that's what the US government said the second the planes hit, and the rest fo the (western) world has by and large swallowed it. There is not one shred of even circumstantial evidence to back it up. The only people who benefitted from 9/11 are groups like Lockheed Martin, Halliburton etc which all include as major shareholders Messrs Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. It didn't benefit Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam etc one jot for 9/11 to happen, yet George, Dick, Condeleeza and the rest have done nothing but rake in the money as the direct and indirect results of 9/11. Osama Bin Laden is pretty much the Lee Harvey Oswald of 9/11.

The media only reports on what it chooses, and in many countries, what the government tells it to report. Right now, in many countries there are ultra-brutal regimes that make the Taliban look like the Fimbles, but it isn't in the western media's (and western government's) interests to report on it.

Lastly, the major point was that "how is this worse"? The burnings that is? Didn't the BBC, LWT, Grenada and the rest also make the ultimate Guy Fawkes bonfire from old episodes of NOBA, Dr Who, TOTP etc. Didn't the Beeb keep the shredder industry in the money throughout the 70s? Isn't it a requiremnt of all UK roads to be at least 20% composed out of old Goons master tapes/discs? Yes the Afghan burnings are terrible, but personally I feel that the destruction of TOTP, TDUDP etc is far worse...............

[Ben]

Isn't it a requiremnt of all UK roads to be at least 20% composed out of old Goons master tapes/discs?

I'm so sorry, but that made me laugh!

[Wright Blan]

Guest-Lance said:

Does Osama actually exist? (think about it!,he only turns up at American Elections as the boogie man)
It would be quite possible for him to have training camps in Afghanistan without any locals knowing about it.
IRA terrorists were being aided and abetted by Americans . How many have they murdered and crippled ? Does that give Britain the right to blow up Boston?
Of course not because America is always right ! George Bush is God's right hand man on Earth! So nobody questions America America rules the world! and dont anyone forget it.

The Taliban and Osama were in cahoots from the days of The Soviet invasion (and the US govt. helped them out, I'm sorry to say). The Taliban later controlled Afghanistan, and gave aid and confort to Osama at the same time. That's quite different than private US citizens giving money to Sinn Fein/ the IRA, since they weren't/aren't in the govt. If gov't officials or employees were helping the IRA out financially, then I would expect the UK to raise a bit of a fuss.

And let's just get one thing straight: I think the George W. Bush administration is the most destructive in at least modern US history. The Administration (as oposed to Bush, who is more of a figurehead than an actual hands-on leader) has trashed America's reputation, and worse, it's ability to be an economically stable and soverign nation.