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 Explain this rationale, if anything the war in
Afghanistan was legitimate by all accounts. Firstly the ones who
attacked the US on 9/11 were Al Q operatives, the US asked the Taliban
regime to give them the OBL and the gang in return for not attacking
Afghanistan, they refused and the war started

Suuure thats what its all about. you really come of as informed (by fox news)

 http://www.google.dk/search?q=oil+pipeline+afghanistan&s ourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8& amp;oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US: official

Since when is it common practice to bomb a country to the pits, ensure
thats it opium trade can be started again (After the taliban destroyed
it) to catch one man, whom the taliban again and again claimed they
didnt know where was. It was the western media who insisted that they
knew it, and kept making storys. How do we know? we had people there
through ISRA that is a humanitarian aid agency that i work with. 

This man thanks the US for ensuring his business

 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CI A_Taliban.html

The U.S. war on Afghanistan is a brutal attack on a country
that has already been almost destroyed by more than 20 years of
foreign invasion and civil war.' The Soviet occupation, which
lasted from 1979 to 1989, left more than a million people dead.
Millions still live in refugee camps More than 500,000 orphans
are disabled. Ten million land mines still litter the country,
killing an average of 90 people per month. At 43 years, life expectancy
in Afghanistan is on average 17 years lower than that for people
in other developing countries. The countryside is devastated and
is currently experiencing a severe drought, with 7.5 million people
threatened with starvation. The death and destruction wrought
by the U.S. bombing campaign-and the cut off of food aid deliveries
it has caused-have already killed hundreds and produced thousands
more refugees scrambling to escape into Pakistan.

But not only is Washington attacking one of the poorest countries
in the world, past U.S. government actions are in no small part
responsible for the current situation in Afghanistan. The Bush
administration claims to be targeting Osama bin Laden, who it
says masterminded the September 11 terror attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon (even though it has offered no concrete
evidence to back up this accusation), and Afghanistan's Taliban
government, which is sheltering him. But as the Economist magazine
noted soon after September 11, " [U.S.] policies in Afghanistan
a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and
the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An
examination of this history will reveal the extent to which U.S.
foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term
pursuit of narrow interests.

 How is that "not better" then Iraq? Are you suggesting
that the US now has no right to defend itself because you feel Muslims
are going to be hurt?

Defend itself against what. weman and children? 

Oh btw...what happened to bin laden. did the us get to "defend" itself.
or did it get to build the pipeline it wanted to build all along. Why
do you think the taliban WAS INVITED TO THE US? for a cuppa and a
freindly conversation? ofcourse they refused, as it was to no benefit
of them or their people.

 Also considering that the Northern Alliance actually supported the war, and joined the US against the Taliban

so what youre saying is that you dont know youre arse from your elbow.
The northern alliance are a gathering af war tribes. They where pissed
of with the taleban because they had been fighting them, so they
wouldnt raid the towns all the time. that conflict is what created the
taliban to begin with.  But naturally the war tribes where the
good guys becasue they helped the US. nevermind their own agenda, like
reintroducing the opium trade like no tommorow.

 so to suggest that the war in Afghanistan was a war against the Afghan people or Islam is idiotic,

you are right. Piracy is the right term for it. sorry

 especially considering that no one outside Pakistan considered the Taliban as legitmate rulers of Afghanistan.

Do the US ask Denmark or norway for permission when they insert a new
government? what kind of reasoning is that. With the exception of the
northern alliance most afghans were happy about the taleban, because
they provided something most of them hadnt had for more than 20 years.
they provided security.

I do not agree with their treatment of weman, but i do know first hand
what went on there. If you want to know more about ISRA see
WWW.isra.co.uk or www.isra.dk

 You have not shown us as such...I will be EAGERLY awaiting a response.

wich you have gotten, now lets not waste anymore of eachothers time.

Peace

Noah