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Trump Slaughters Dozens Of

artappraiser — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 20:26:05 +0000

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Trump Slaughters Dozens Of American Troops In Hopes Of Cashing In On Russian Bounties https://t.co/mm7RtNLGXR pic.twitter.com/wVxdATyfTj
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 6, 2020

Adam Silverman has a ton of

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:46:24 +0000

In reply to Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says

Adam Silverman has a ton of experience in national security. Read him on the Russian bounties. https://t.co/B4Ed8im07V
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 29, 2020

Michael Steele:

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:25:45 +0000

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Michael Steele:

Stop it. Trump was briefed. He may not have paid attention to it or read the PDB he was given but he was briefed. He did nothing while Putin put a bounty on our American Troops. Note, this White House has not denied the underlying intelligence. #putinspet https://t.co/sr98scobkx
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) June 28, 2020

Yes, after two exhausting

artappraiser — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 03:23:43 +0000

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Yes, after two exhausting days of investigation on the golf course, @realDonaldTrump has cracked the case of the Russia bounty payments. It's another hoax perpetrated by those devious hoaxsters at NY Times Books! https://t.co/TzJUJnnd2Q
— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) June 29, 2020

This will of course mean zero to Nonny because Mr. Bromwich has bonafide "deep state" credentials going way back: former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra; independent monitor; law enforcement consultant; views are my own

The source was only meant to

moat — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:54:16 +0000

In reply to You parrot a wiki history

The source was only meant to frame the events in the context you claimed was not germane.
I have made no reference to what happened after the war with the Soviets.

Same people, different time. For the sake of precision, I should have said something like precursors to Taliban.

You parrot a wiki history

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:33:15 +0000

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You parrot a wiki history that verifies that no evidence has been found in 30 years that the CIA funded the Taliban or AQ but is also incomplete and inaccurate. You then make another ignorant claim based on misinformation.

The Taliban formed in refugee camps in Pakistan and those students brought it to Afghanistan two years after the Afghan war ended. Some of the Pashtunwali fighters from the war converted to Wahhabi Islam and joined the Taliban

Inferring that because the CIA supported the Mujahideen they funded the Taliban a decade later is absurd even if some of them joined the Taliban.

From Wikipedia for brevity:

moat — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:59:43 +0000

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From Wikipedia for brevity:

After the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in 1979, Islamic mujahideen fighters engaged in war with those Soviet forces. Some of those Islamic fighters would later transform into the Taliban according to Professor Carole Hillenbrand who stated: "The West helped the Taliban to fight the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan".[10]

Although no documentation has officially surfaced that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al Qaeda, some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency) provided arms to Afghans resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets.[11] Osama bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Arab volunteers, although his organization, Maktab al-Khidamat, was exclusively Saudi funded.[12][13]

For more detailed information, look for Operation Cyclone and Pashtun nationalism during the Soviet invasion. The word "Taliban" means students who went madrassahs in Pakistan as refugees during the war.

Same people, different time.

I think this kind of ridicule

artappraiser — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:42:50 +0000

In reply to Cue the Golfer's Overcoat in

I think this kind of ridicule personally rattles the Narcissist Trump mightily but has little affect on followers and fans, nearly zero effect actually, as at many of his rallies the attendees don't look that different. And ya know, comes to mind Trump, as to physical appearance, he only judges women that way; with men he's a fan of Rocketman and Pootie. Despite the bare chest photos of the latter, he's lacking both the height and the hair of an Adonis.

Cue the Golfer's Overcoat in

jollyroger — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:25:12 +0000

In reply to He may not be the yugest

Cue the Golfer's Overcoat in 5...4...3...

He may not be the yugest

jollyroger — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:23:45 +0000

In reply to Your twisting of anything and

He may not be the yugest genius among world leaders, but he surely has the yugest ass. (ed note: Trump v. Spanx, Spanx lays down and dies, admits defeat.)