Afghans Demand End to Bombing

[Tim May]

On Friday, December 28, 2001, at 09:16 PM, Jon Beets wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anonymous" <nobody at mix.winterorbit.com>
> To: <cypherpunks at 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 
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