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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: miskie on April 15, 2009, 06:12:14 PM
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Somali Pirates ? Who's fault ? You guessed it... (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3833330)
Memekiller (707 posts) Wed Apr-15-09 06:56 PM
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Bush's Forgotten FUBAR
Source: Examiner
Somalia was poised for its best chance at regaining some stability, after years as an essentially failed state of rival Warlords -- and the Bush Administration intervened. This time, they had convinced Ethopia to invade and prevent the fledgling government from taking hold. Why? Because the Administration was at war with Islam instead of terrorism.
Somalia has always had a large population of Muslims, but Al Qaeda had little success exploiting it because Islam in Africa tends to be a less militant form, and a completely different animal than that found in the mountains of Afghanistan. That is, until the Bush Administration decided to prevent the Islamic faction of Somalia from taking hold, thus making the country descend, again, into anarchy.
What had spooked the Administration was that an uprising of public support for the Islamic Courts in Somalia had usurped the warlords, and was on its way to unifying the nation behind some form of government -- not perfect, but a government, nonetheless.
So the Administration supported an invasion of Christian Ethiopians with money, intelligence and supplies.
Read more: http://www.examiner.com/x-1765-Underground-Examiner~y2009m4d13-Bushs-forgotten-FUBAR
What was the US's greatest blunder since 9/11, according to one expert? Odds are, you haven't even heard of it.
Few know that in 2006, the US backed an Ethiopian invasion that ended Somalia's best chance at a government in a generation, mostly due to ideology. The result, is an occupying army that was supposed to have been out in a few weeks, and resurgent Islamic group more radical than ever, and a population more anti-American than ever before due to "floating prisons" -- US Navy vessels turned into Abu Ghraibs.
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Going back almost three years so soon?
Is there anything that GWB could not do?
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Somali Pirates ? Who's fault ? You guessed it... (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3833330)
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It takes time for fugus and mold to grow...be patient grasshopper.
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What do we care? Our Bower-in-Chief will fix everything.