. . . the most corrupt government in the world’

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5379.shtml


Malalai Joya: ‘Afghans live under the shadow of the gun with the most corrupt government in the world’


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Afghanistan is not the “Just War” that Obama defends so passionately in his speech. It’s part of a larger US geopolitical strategy which Joya outlines in her new book, “A Woman Among the Warlords: The extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice.”

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“A Woman Among the Warlords” is an explosive narrative that takes a scalpel to many of the illusions surrounding the US invasion of Afghanistan. For example, most Americans have never heard about the “Warlord Strategy,” a term that is commonplace among Afghans. That’s because it doesn’t mesh with the media’s story about Afghan “liberation.” The truth is, US war-planners, led by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, settled on a plan to hand over entire regions of Afghanistan to the warlords even before the first shot was fired. The whole “liberation”-meme was just a ruse to elicit support for the war. How many Americans would support sending more troops if they knew that the original justification of the war was a bunch of baloney?

Here’s how Joya sums it up in her own words: “The people of Afghanistan are fed up with the occupation of their country and with the corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai and the warlords and drug lords backed by NATO. . . . It is clear now that the real motive of the U.S. and its allies, hidden behind the so-called “war on terror,” was to convert Afghanistan into a military base in Central Asia and the capital of the world’s opium drug trade. Ordinary Afghan people are being used in this chess game, and western taxpayers’ money and the blood of soldiers is being wasted on this agenda that will only further destabilize the region. . . . Afghan and American lives are being needlessly lost.”

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Malalai Joya: “While the United States bombed from the sky, the CIA and special forces had already arrived in the northern provinces of Afghanistan to hand out millions of dollars in cash and weapons to Northern Alliance commanders. They were the same extremists whose militias had pillaged Afghanistan during the civil war: Dostum, Sayyaf, Khalili, Rhabbani, Fahim, General Arif, Dr. Abdullah, Haji Qadir, Ustad Atta, Mohammad, Daoud, and Hazrat Ali among others. . . . Fahim, another ruthless man with a dark past. The western media tried at the time to portray these warlords as ‘anti-Taliban resistance forces and liberators of Afghanistan,’ but in fact Afghan people believed they were no better than the Taliban.” (Ibid, pg 52)

As the Taliban fled across the Pakistan border amid heavy aerial bombardment, the warlords seized entire provinces reestablishing their iron-fisted rule over the local population. No attempt was ever made to establish democracy. Even today, many of the warlords are still on the US payroll, a point which Obama somehow failed to mention in his “Peace Prize” speech.

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Malalai Joya again: “Most people in the west have been led to believe that intolerance, brutality, and severe oppression of women in Afgahnistan began with the Taliban regime. But this is a lie, more dust in the eyes of the world from the warlords who dominate the American-backed, so-called democratic government of Hamid Karzai. In truth, some of the worst atrocities in our recent past were committed during the civil war by the men who are now in power.”

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These are the monsters the US continues to support in Afghanistan today.

JOYA’S SOLUTION: “Withdraw All Foreign Troops”

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Malalai Joya - truth teller


(I read somewhere today - didn't make a note of where - that most of the opium money went to the men running the Afghanistan govt. and not to the taliban)

[midnight]

1. Peace.... Good advice Malalai Joya.