Surprised they weren't running it on CBC or some other Canadian channel 24/7

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Hmmmmm... thread title claims "Killed by Yanks", yet the synopsis of the film tells of the Afghan Warlords and their soldiers doing the slaughtering...

I give this "doc" a big rolleyes.

he's stirring up some controversy!

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Meh. Terrorists. Good riddance.

Just like pretty much everything concerning the US, this will just stir up shitloads of controversy, and that's probably exactly what it's aiming at. Along with this, there are many documentaries of human rights abuse that the US has had a hand in, that have never, and probably will never see air on US channels.
"A God fearing, freedom loving" nation indeed.

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Meh. Terrorists. Good riddance.

Those killed in Afghanistan weren't terrorists.

Soldiers for a repressive regime (one supported by the US btw until 9/11) but the Taliban were simply a harsh regional dictatorship.

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Originally posted by crazedcanuck Soldiers for a repressive regime (one supported by the US btw until 9/11) but the Taliban were simply a harsh regional dictatorship.

Hm, shows how much I know then. It was my understanding (thanks to some shitty media) that the Taliban was a terrorist group. I didn't know they were just a regional dictatorship with their own militia.

Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians.

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Originally posted by zokissima Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians.

Yes!

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Originally posted by zokissima Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians.

The mujahidden was composed of many groups, which Taliban was one of them which was indeed supported by US.

However, Taliban only took power in Afghanistan in mid 90s IIRC after a civil war with Northern Alliance of northern Afghanistan. So US didn't directly put Taliban into power.

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

True, I should have clarified. But the point still remains. This nation has been in the spotlight for quite some time prior to the 9/11 incident, and yes, even though they were an opressive regime, the fact remains that for a long time they were supported by the US. After the fall of the USSR, the US interest from that region faded, regardless of the fact that the country was torn to s***. Simply, they were used as an active part of the US containment policy against Communism, and once that threat passed, they ceased to care what happened to them.