On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 09:16 PM, Jon Beets wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anonymous" <nobody@mix.winterorbit.com> To: <cypherpunks@lne.com> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:00 PM Subject: Afghans Demand End to Bombing
Heard on the news tonight that the "interim Afghan government" was demanding an end to the bombing in 3 days, and that all troops leave in 6 months.
Can you show a reference to this? Everything I read today said tribal leaders from the Paktia province were wanting the bombing to stop... I read nothing about the interim government stating it...
It took me less than a minute to retrieve several articles with quotes from members of the interim government. Here's just one of them: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011228/ts/attack_dc_1192.html If you challenge someone to "show a reference to this" you should have at least spent a minute looking.
Again I still hav'nt seen a reference where Bush stated our troops will be there for a long time.. He did say the war on terrorism will last a long time but where did he explicitly say they would be in Afghanistan for along time?....
You haven't seen a reference? Then you haven't looked, have you? It took me another 30 seconds to find this (though I remembered it from seeing Bush's comments today in Crawford): "With operational commander Gen. Tommy Franks at his side at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, Bush said he expected U.S. forces to remain in Afghanistan ``for quite a long period of time.''" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011228/ts/attack_dc_1196.html --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787