Laura Bush: "The power of freedom is on display in Afghanistan"

[Nikki Stone 1]

Just saw the first lady on NBC this morning. Clearly, she doesn't understand that Afghanistan is a hellhole, outside the heavily fortified capital; that the poppy fields are growing record crops for the heroin trade; and that the situation for Afghan women is worse now than it was before the war.

Or maybe this is the "power of freedom."

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Nah she is readying from

Q cards

We are at year three of an invasion and are repeating the same pattern evey other invader has done. Now we are up to building small bases all across the country.

Didn't the Ruskies do this?

Didn't the Brits befoer the Ruskies do this?

Oh never mind...

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. Apparently the military bases are protecting the Unocal pipeline route

from what I have read, though I wish I had independent verification of that.

[Warpy]

2. Right, the stupid cow probably thinks those

burqas are fashion statements.

[lyvwyr101]

4. Not a surprise

The republican party, at this point would sprinkle powdered sugar on a bowl of raw sewage and call it, tapioca.
Republicans, are not part of the "reality based community."
If they were, they would be paying attention to the polls, the statistics, and the editorials.
They live in their own little world.

[htuttle]

5. The women of Afghanistan would beg to differ

http://www.rawa.org/mar8-05e.htm

RAWA Statement on the International Women’s Day

Over the last 27 years, Afghanistan has been trampled first by Russian invaders and their Khalqi and Parchami lackeys, and then, following the collapse of the puppet regimes in 1992, the bloody and treacherous Emirate of Jehadis left deep and incurable stains on the souls and body of our nation. Four years later when the fundamentalist criminal gangs could not consolidate their suffocatingly oppressive Emirate, their foreign bosses brought into play the reserved players, the Taliban, whose furious ferocity against the women and men of this land, recorded dark stains not only in Afghan history but the world’s history as well. Taliban savagery, though prevailed in cemetery silence over Afghanistan, but when they showed their disobedience to their American creators by aligning themselves with the Al-Qaeda terrorists after September 11, their medieval government evaporated. This did not demolish their military power; instead the blood of over 3,000 innocent Afghan people was shed. Upon the Taliban's dissolution, the U.S. and her allies transferred political power to the murderous "Northern Alliance" criminals who are far more misogynist and anti-human rights themselves. They were declared champions under the shadow of B-52 fighters.

(snip)

The Northern Alliance showed their true character in their “governance” between 1992 to 1996. Their cruelty and meanness in the darkest era of Afghanistan history was so severe that our people forgot the bombardment, genocide and terror of the Russian invaders and their native stooges. Hence it is not strange that despite recent establishment of an interim government and presidential election, there is honor among thieves just as there is no sign of peace or economic revival because there is no essential difference between the two criminal camps. The "Northern Alliance" and the Taliban are just like one soul in two bodies, because the "Northern Alliance" gangs can not survive without relying on terror and drugs trafficking.

(snip)

Alas, Karzai betrayed the people's trust and cheapened their votes. By relying on Sayyaf, Rabbani, Karim Khalili, Ismail Khan, Dr. Abdullah, Dostum and other warlords and appointing a few infamous fundamentalist women to his cabinet, he set up a coalition and government based on convenience. Due to the Karzai’s kindness to the "Northern Alliance" criminals, the murderers of Dr. Abdul Rahman and of university students, the bully Jaihon who murdered Haidari, the rapists of the young Rahima and hundreds of other villains and gangs under the protection of "Northern Alliance" bandits are now proudly roaming in the streets of Kabul and other provinces.

(snip)

If the fundamentalists are not put on trial for the countless crimes and atrocities they have committed, if their weapons are not collected and especially if the billions of dollars they have put in their pockets are not confiscated, then, in fact, no progress has been made. These criminals would and will use this money to carry out crime and terror and conspiracy and cheating in the parliamentarian election. In this country, now captive of the "Northern Alliance" mafia, the parliamentarian election resembles a mirage and an ironic game, which would have not the slightest effect on the people’s lives and would not heal their old wounds. Nevertheless, the warlords who shamelessly call themselves "leaders and commanders" will continue their reign of terror.

(more at link)

Here's a slideshow of the real 'freedom fighters' in Afghanistan. Of course, they receive no support whatsoever from the United States:
http://www.rawa.org/kab-jan05/mar8-05ph.htm

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. GREAT POST! I hope everyone reads it.

So much of what we hear is spin. The reality is so horrific.

[madrchsod]

7. laura is a stupid twit

a cat has more curiosity than she does,what a disgrace

[Nikki Stone 1]

8. Do you think Mrs. Bush actually doesn't know what conditions are like?

She'll be there for a bit. Maybe she'll get a chance to see the wreckage.