Afghans Demand End to Bombing

[Jon Beets]

I read several articles and had not seen those... All I asked for was a
reference... Thanks for POINTING out that you can find it... Just WANTED THE
PERSON saying it to also GIVE HIS REFERENCES when he makes he satements...

Jon Beets

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim May" <tcmay at got.net>
To: <cypherpunks at lne.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: Afghans Demand End to Bombing


> 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
> of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787