Welshman: THE STARTLING REVELATIONS THAT THE MEDIA IGNORED (Afghanistan)

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http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/4/11/20181/0761

or

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/12/75535/5670

(check out the first source of the post - nice site).

Long post by Welshman that is a MUST READ. Some excerpts:

"DEMOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN REVEALED AS SHAM", the headlines should shout. "U.S. Flash Drives Sold In Local Market" whispers the sub-editor.

The length of this commentary will not allow me to deal in depth with the other major story found by that reporter and contained, or buried, in the article. It should have its own major headline that reads: U.S. ALLY BETRAYS OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN

It is not just that the victory in Afghanistan is no victory at all. It is that the word "democracy" is applied by George Bush to a nation, as it is applied to Iraq, that is controlled and dominated by an occupying country. That is not democracy; it is the tyranny of power by a greater force.

To say it is otherwise is a lie to the American people, it is a lie to the men and women in its military and it is a lie to that young girl who so willingly out of love for her own country gave her father to George Bush. She gave her father for a mission that he claimed was defined and for objectives that were supposed to be clear, but which are now both seen in reality to be no more than the sands of the desert blown in the wind.

This is the story that the Los Angeles Times should have highlighted and which is buried deep in the copy provided by a reporter and sent back to the States. This is the story of just a few hours ago that much of the media has ignored.

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1. Oh, SNAP!

Then again, it's generally agreed that Hamid Karzai's actual political power barely extends outside of Kabul. Too many warlords and armed thugs who have their own way of doing things. And then there's the Taliban...

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2. "Generally agreed"

unfortunately mainly among the 10% (or so) of US population that is actually paying attention. I've had semi-comatose non-freeper types say to me "yeah but Afghanistan was a good job wasn't it?" It's hard to know where to begin.

:banghead:

[TayTay]

3. Afghanistan is a good job for opium growers

That's about it. Karzai is helpless to do anything against the warlords who really run the country. Afghanistan is not under control and is as dangerous now, if not more so, than when the Taleban openly controlled it. (And the do control a lot of it now.)

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4. YEP AND BUSHIE HAS DRIVEN THE PRICE OF SMACK DOWN 2/3 WORLDWIDE

I read wholesale on Heroin is only about 1/3 of what it was before Bushocracy made all the deals with local war-lords to keep peace in the country to a degree.

Beer's cheap too... keeping the masses drugged is a very old approach for tyrants

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5. I've seen a report in FT that bin Laden got $600 million

a year from the opium trade before the invasion.

I wonder how much he's getting now?

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6. Didn't Unocal (or some oil co) get their pipeline, too?

Ah, that was the deal, wasn't it...a pipeline (oil) for a pipeline (opium).

[ProSense]

8. Maybe that's what the Presidnut meant when he talked about

alternative fuels.

[xchrom]

7. the media supports bushco -- so we can't be surprised

to find that it's under reported or ignored that a mess in afghanistan has been brewing.

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9. the Corporate Media ignoring NEWS...holy sosobad