http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-objective ... president/
Didn't read the second page for some time, because the first consisted entirely of, well, the same boilerplate narrative that causes the futile strain of debates that made me drop off the face of TCS for months. So, having finally read page two, I have to address their most patently false point here:
The idea that Osama Bin Laden led the Afghan rebellion against the Soviet Union, based on a clueless puff-piece article from 1993.
There's the obvious point that 1993 was two administrations down the road from Reagan, of course, but that's not even close to the most egregious thing here.
The Soviets were expelled in early 1989, led by two major and opposing figures: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmed Shah Massoud. Massoud was installed as the defense minister for the new government; Hekmatyar was on the outs and, by 1993, the warpath, accompanied by Bin Laden (a very minor figure in the original war against the Soviets) and, naturally, Mullah Omar.
Massoud's government would be ousted in 1994, whereupon he would go on to lead the Northern Alliance until his assassination on September 9, 2001.
The American Congress, in a repeat of the Fall of Saigon, had refused to fund and support the reasonably-free Afghan government extant from 1989 to 1994.
So, yeah. That's the sort of misinformation you need to denounce from the rooftops.