"Chad Irby" wrote:

Actually, the folks we backed were the guys the Taliban edged out to get
power after the USSR left. That's why the US didn't have any decent
connections in Afghanistan for 20 years.

That is beacuse US didn't have any interes for Afganistan when Rusians
left. US trained them, equipted and left them. And when Talibans turned
against their former allies US decided to kick them.
When they fight against Russians they are freedom fighters and when they
fight against US they are terrorists. Yeah right :-)

Funny how you can't seem to list "a lot" of them. We helped put some
dictators in, but I really can't think of any cases where we trained

Dictators which were (are) supported by US:
Pinochet (Chile)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/...8/nsaebb8i.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/chile/stor...038615,00.html

Sadam (Iraq)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.1...wk.us.iraq.htm

Musharaf (Pakistan)

Gen. José Alberto Medrano (El Salvador)
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pr...News_1984.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pr...News_1984.html

Somoza (Nicaragua)
http://home.sandiego.edu/~acase/nic.htm)

Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro (Guatemala)
http://www.isp.nwu.edu/~fprefect/politics/timeline.html

You can see there are more then few terrorist and dictatros which were US
puppets. US was (is) supporting state terrorism mainly through their
intellegence agencies.

Yeah, we backed some bad folks. But the thing to remember is that the
USSR was backing *worse* ones during the same time period. We also had
a tendency to train people how to fight wars, while the USSR defaulted
to training them how to commit acts of terror.
Look at the list, and get back to us. All of the worst folks around
right now are old Soviet clients.

LOL
You are funny !
You argue whose methods were more dirty; US mehods or SSSR methods.
The truth is tht US was/is at least as much dirty as SSSR (or vice versa).

Especially when the USSR gives them to you and shows you how to use them.

Or Especially when US give you and helps you to produce chemical weapon and
shows You how do use it against Iranians ;-)