Lowkey on Afghanistan pt. 1

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    • We are here today to talk about an invasion, an occupation, a war which has ravaged a country whose history is littered with foreign interference. Opposing the war in Iraq did not mean you were automatically pro Saddam, if anyone was pro Saddam that was Ronald Reagan and his administration. Opposing the war in Afghanistan does not make you pro Al Qaeda, if anyone could be called pro Al Qaeda, with all due respect for his current position regarding Palestine, it would be Jimmy Carters administration and the director of the CIA at the time Robert Gates, a man who currently serves as Obamas Defence Secretary. Opposing the war in Afghanistan does not make you pro Taliban, if anyone was pro Taliban it was Condoleezza Rice and her cohorts at the oil company UNOCAL. The Taliban themselves were orphans of the Afghan war with the Russians in which Al Qaeda were backed by the CIA under both Jimmy Carters and Ronald Reagans administrations. Nobody in there right mind could deny the Talibans hideous oppression of women but it didnt start on September 11th 2001, their horrendous regime was in power long before. When Bush and Blair tried to justify this war, all of a sudden womens rights in Afghanistan were so very important. Women in Afghanistan were persecuted prior to September 11th and are still subject to persecution on a daily basis today under the clearly un democratic Karzai regime which the Americans and the British are currently so steadfast in supporting. Condoleezza Rice <b>...</b>
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