Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89771&sectionid=351020403

Warning that the situation is "increasingly perilous", US President Barack Obama unveils a new strategy to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda. In an address at the executive office building in Washington on Friday, Obama said he would use all elements in his power to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" the insurgency in the war-ridden country. "Attacks against our troops, our NATO allies, and the Afghan government have risen steadily. Most painfully, 2008 was the deadliest year of the war for American forces," Obama said. He reminded the American people [of the outrageous lie] that the US did not choose to invade Afghanistan but was forced to after the deadly 9/11 attacks carried out by al-Qaeda elements. #1: Israel & the US government did 9/11, not some "al-Qaeda elements". #2: There's no such thing as "al-Qaeda". The name of the organization comes from the Arabic noun qā'idah, which means foundation or basis and can also refer to a military base or database. (The initial al- is the Arabic definite article 'the', hence the base. In Arabic qa'idah bayanat is database where bayanat is data and qa'idah is base.) Now, what do we find in this database and whose database is it? It is made up of a ragtag army of locals, hooligans and professional hitmen recruited by American military intelligence & the CIA. (Even the late Osama bin Laden was one of their "al-Qaeda" agents. You can see him chat with his handler Zbigniew Brezinski HERE. Brezinski, incidentally, also used to be Barack Obama's handler.) #3: The threat of US attacks against Afghanistan was passed to the Taliban weeks before NY attack (Another link HERE.) -SO, the US wasn't "forced to" invade Afghanistan because of 9/11. Moreover, it definitely DID choose to do so, and had planned the invasion since (at least) the summer of 2001 and, together with Israel, 9/11 even earlier than this. (Probably years earlier). Curiously, trying to make the inherited Afghanistan war his "own", Obama follows in the footsteps of Bush & Cheney using the 9/11 as a pretext, blaming it on "al-Qaeda elements". Has Obama no sense of shame?