I mean, we are running deficits and war looters are ripping us off. WTF?!
"Mrs. Bush... met with Mr. Karzai as well as Afghan teachers in training and students, and she announced $80 million for two American government programs in education. The United States Agency for International Development will spend $40 million on scholarships and on developing the campus of the American University of Afghanistan, and it will spend $40 million on a national literacy program over the next five years, she said at a brief appearance with Mr. Karzai in the gardens of the presidential palace."
I wonder which war-contractors will be gobbling up that war loot.
Here's what Laura should have done (thanks, Mike):
"If Mrs. Bush really wanted to understand about what "progress" felt like in Afghanistan, she should ask a mother sickened though exposure to depleted uranium whose baby is suffering from multiple birth defects.
She should be speaking to women who have lost their husbands, sons, and daughters in the spiraling violence.
She should be speaking to US and NATO soldiers who are, essentially, guarding the routes through which harvested opium is sold.
She should talk to the people who see the Taliban as a far cleaner governmental alternative to that of Karzai's government.
We are not "defending freedom", and the world knows this. Our presence is about oil pipeline infrastructure, and the Taliban were asking what was thought to be too much money from the oil companies when the original negotiations were held with them.
We never, ever had enough troops on the ground to really do the job (even by our own military's standard), and the world knows this.
Why Bush & Company decided, in the face of looming, catastrophic defeat, to trot Laura out for this "photo op" is desperation on the cusp of madness." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
But no, instead Laura let this diarrhea stream run from her mouth:
"In the interview, Laura Bush also acknowledged President Bush's unpopularity, but said that history will vindicate her husband's two-term presidency, noting the ousting of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"I know he may not be that popular right now, but we've liberated two countries - 50 million people have been liberated from very brutal regimes - and I think that's really important," she said."
"When on patrol, the marines carry a small gadget the size of an old Polaroid camera that takes fingerprints, photos and an iris scan of people they meet. It is used to build a database of the residents so they can easily spot strangers, the marines say. The Afghans accepted the imposition without protest."
How come the word "Anti-Christ" keeps entering my thoughts, readers?
