How the world used to see Bin Laden.

IOwin · 2012-09-08T17:00:29+00:00

repost from another Redditor who said his parents bought every news paper they could the day he was born. Here is the OP

_this_is_A_name_ · 2012-09-08T22:46:39+00:00

I love how people still talk about this so much;

"What's the difference between a cow and 9/11? A: You can't milk a cow for 10 years"

distractthepaladin · 2012-09-08T21:27:49+00:00

Saddam Hussein was a good guy too, back when the Reagan era CIA (headed by George Bush Sr) was giving him money to be a pain in the ass to Iran, after the Iranians overthrew the Shah (who had secret police, torture prisons, etc. but the Shah was Our Boy too, so he was okay). Instead of sending our sons and daughters off to die in these righteous crusades maybe we should make our leaders take Personal Responsibility for their own fuckups.

Biscoto · 2012-09-08T19:07:13+00:00

he was trained by the cia... how is this wtf? media brainwashing gg

kawumm · 2012-09-08T19:21:41+00:00

How the world used to see Bin Laden.

Easy now America, you haven't finished your plate yet.

BALTIM0R0N · 2012-09-08T22:11:50+00:00

Today in r/wtf: common knowledge for anyone who pays the slightest amount of attention to history.

with_a_leadpipe · 2012-09-08T17:02:12+00:00

The cold-war doctrine was "the enemy of our enemy is our friend".

The only wtf about this is the sad truths about the realities of politics and the horrors that people do to each other.

THE_BOSS93 · 2012-09-08T18:16:09+00:00

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

MitchOssimPants · 2012-09-08T17:00:20+00:00

Didn't the U.S. used to supply him with weapons?

BLUEequalsRED · 2012-09-09T00:03:29+00:00

Was bin laden a bad guy or something? I'm confused, what did he do?

anotherpinner · 2012-09-08T09:47:56-07:00

Too bad he decided to kill all the younglings.

triforce721 · 2012-09-08T21:18:35+00:00

Dude, come on, this was just posted. what is wrong with you? I cannot figure out why you would repost something for fake internet points.

StatmanThunderfist · 2012-09-08T10:09:03-07:00

Sounds like voldemort when he was still at hogwarts

thoughtspasm · 2012-09-08T19:42:20+00:00

We are at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia.

WreckedEmRanger · 2012-09-08T16:44:07+00:00

What year was that article written?

TheOrsimer · 2012-09-08T21:12:55+00:00

How the Media used to display Bin Laden so the public would turn a blind eye to the gov't supplying them weapons FTFY

mrchicano209 · 2012-09-08T18:05:51+00:00

He also was a CIA agent and was supplied by the Americans to fight Soviet Russia in the 80's.

heretik · 2012-09-08T19:31:48+00:00

Robert Fisk. Fucking love that guy.

knowses · 2012-09-08T20:25:25+00:00

They probably wanted to give him the Nobel Peace Prize. Typical.

AndreagoesRawr · 2012-09-08T20:50:03+00:00

At first glance I thought the picture was I Sauroman. Whoops.

googoomuck · 2012-09-08T21:18:19+00:00

Ah those were the days, lol.

a_plan_so_cunning · 2012-09-08T21:47:42+00:00

Hey, that's anti american. You hate america, get him!!!!

dduct · 2012-09-08T23:12:34+00:00

REPOST

mrstickball · 2012-09-09T00:39:44+00:00

And one wonders why people don't like us backing specific forces in Libya/Syria/ect...

OleQueenCole · 2012-09-09T01:21:05+00:00

Use to....

Popcom · 2012-09-09T02:02:19+00:00

You're seriously already reposting this?

Duraace · 2012-09-09T02:51:30+00:00

Pathetic that you would repost something, and so soon, for a little attention on the Internet lol. Sad.

harmdaddy · 2012-09-09T02:53:28+00:00

You are fucking sheltered if this is WTF to you... or news for that matter.

Diablohaze · 2012-09-09T03:17:55+00:00

Nice repost brah

vbullinger · 2012-09-09T03:39:24+00:00

This should be in /r/conspiracy, no?

serrit · 2012-09-09T04:41:42+00:00

So, where'd you pick up a copy of the ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORIST TIMES?

neonknightz · 2012-09-08T19:19:39+00:00

Some of the guns the CIA gave the Mujahideen were probably used against US soldiers 20 years later

I'm still calling the Black Ops 2 "Shock" Moment will be in the flashback level featuring Woods meeting a younger Osama Bin Laden when the CIA supplied them guns

vaselinepete · 2012-09-08T22:42:55+00:00

Dear all. I had no idea this had been posted recently.

Also, I posted in WTF because I think it's fascinating and while a lot of us know that Bin Laden used to be regarded as one of the 'good guys', the vast majority see him as the boogieman and will genuinely think 'wtf' when seeing the headline. Maybe it will piss them off, maybe it will spur them on to do some research. Either way though, the initial reaction of WTF is a legitimate one.

Once again, before I posted I did a cursory search of Bin Laden and didn't see this same picture.

Thanks for the direct messages calling me a faggot and a rapist though; it's the least someone deserves for putting a URL on a website.

GrymFandango · 2012-09-08T21:07:09+00:00

The only wtf part about this is people not realizing the cold war never ended. There's a constant cold war between superpowers of the world. It doesn't matter though, not as long as we get our bread and our circuses, we can keep pretending we live in a democracy.

lilythemusicnut · 2012-09-08T21:17:03+00:00

Post to r/historyporn!

WTF

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