Can you please list your "factual" sources that proves the Taliban were 100 percent willing to give up Osama bin laden.
I am curious to know.
And how do we know that Bush did not have some evidence at the time? Just because he said "Fuck you" to them does not mean he did not have some evidence right?
I am just playing devils advocate now.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com...-light-on-early-taliban-offers-pakistan-role/
Just google "Taliban offer to give up bin laden".
The Taliban were offering to give up Bin Laden
months before 9/11 but the US refused. Hardly helping Al Qaeda is it if they are prepared to give Bin Laden up?
To quote the article I linked:
Michael Malinowski, a State Department official involved in the talks, acknowledged, “I would say, ‘Hey, give up bin Laden,’ and they would say, ‘No…. Show us the evidence’”, a request U.S. officials deemed unreasonable.[3]
According to the BBC,
the Taliban later even warned the U.S. that bin Laden was going to launch an attack on American soil. Former Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil said his warnings, issued because of concerns that the U.S. would react by waging war against Afghanistan, had been ignored. A U.S. official did not deny that such warnings were issued, but told BBC rather that it was dismissed because “We were hearing a lot of that kind of stuff”.[4]
And
Officials described the U.S. decision to reject Taliban offers as a missed opportunity. Former CIA station chief Milt Bearden told the Post, “We never heard what they were trying to say…. We had no common language. Ours was, ‘Give up bin Laden.’ They were saying, ‘Do something to help us give him up.’”
Bearden added, “I have no doubts they wanted to get rid of him. He was a pain in the neck,” but this “never clicked” with U.S. officials.
Sorry, the Taliban didn't "help" Bin Laden achieve 9/11. The US could have gotten Bin Laden before 9/11 if they had cared to but they didn't really. Also, there has never been any evidence precented that it was Bin Laden that was responsible for 9/11 beyond "we know he did it" which is not evidence but an accusation.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven from rotten US foreign policy and trying to polish the turd of the Afghan war as some kind of necessity is utter BS. It is a war of choice for a lot of geopolitical and geostrategic reasons but the claim that "they hate us for our freedoms" etc propaganda bs is just too stupid.