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Some of The Good News we've heard on the stump repeatedly from both Bush and Cheney, (especially Lord Vader, who showed once and for all just how much effing "gravitas" he has after all by blithely saying the U.S. was shooting for another El Salvador in Afghanistan) is how relentlessly the influenza of freedom and democracy has been infecting the citizens and warlords of Afghanistan since we bombed the country back to the dinosaur age in late 2001.
As Ted Rall points out, it just ain't so.
Check yourself before you say something about fresh air and a smarter war on terror, however. Kerry and Edwards and every other Dem leader and his/her mouthpiece bears responsibility for allowing this turd to continue to float around the pool, too.
My own guess is that talking about just what a shambles Afghanistan still is would shine a light on more than a few uncomfortable questions about the exporting democracy rhetoric - which takes up a big chunk of a potential K-E foreign policy - and what the America's intentions were going in in the first place: Re-establishing credibility (i.e., vengeance)? Primo real estate for oil pipelines? A little of both?
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