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unhappycamper

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Bush Warns of Afghan Tyranny

Bush Warns of Afghan Tyranny
October 31, 2009
Associated Press

NEW DELHI - Former President George W. Bush warned Saturday that "the world would face serious threats" if the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaida are allowed to retake control of Afghanistan.

Bush spoke in the Indian capital as President Barack Obama tries to decide whether to commit tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan. This has been the deadliest year for international and U.S. forces there since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban, and President Hamid Karzai is embroiled in an election dispute that has badly tarnished the Afghan government's credibility.

While not directly commenting on the choice facing Obama, Bush said a peaceful, democratic Afghanistan is vital to the region.

"The mission in Afghanistan has been long and difficult and costly, but I believe it is necessary for stability and peace," he told a leadership conference in New Delhi. "If the Taliban and al-Qaida and their extremist allies were allowed to take over Afghanistan again, they would have a safe haven and the Afghan people, particularly the Afghan women, would face a return to a brutal tyranny.

"This region and the world would face serious threats," he added.

Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/bush-warns-of-afghan-tyranny.html

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hobbit709

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Sun Nov-01-09 05:43 AM
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1. "RIGHT!" Georgie-you're the one that caused this fiasco

Edited on Sun Nov-01-09 05:45 AM by hobbit709

So now just STFU.

By the way, George, when was Afghanistan ever peaceful and democratic?

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Sun Nov-01-09 05:57 AM
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2. The only thing that ran into my mind when I read the title was..

.. But bush isn't president anymore, how can he terrorize the afghan people now? XD

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Sun Nov-01-09 08:47 AM
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3. International War Crimes Tribunal prosecutors: Here is your chance.

Surround and arrest this unrepentant war criminal. He must stand trial before the eyes of the world.

Bush Warns of Afghan Tyranny, October 31, 2009 New Delhi, India

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"The mission in Afghanistan has been long and difficult and costly, but I believe it is necessary for stability and peace," he told a leadership conference in New Delhi. "If the Taliban and al-Qaida and their extremist allies were allowed to take over Afghanistan again, they would have a safe haven and the Afghan people, particularly the Afghan women, would face a return to a brutal tyranny.

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The best kept secret of the Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements. Yet both Congress and the media have strangely failed to identify the very existence of child prisoners as a war crime. In the Islamic world, however, there is no such silence. Indeed, the prophet Mohammed was the first to counsel warriors not to harm innocent children. From jailing children together with adults in prisons where they were raped to failing to notify their parents of their arrest, the U.S. committed numerous war crimes against children in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new book on President Bush states. "American guards videotaped Iraqi male prisoners raping young boys but took no action to stop the offenses (and) children in Abu Ghraib were deliberately frightened by dogs," writes political scientist Michael Haas in his new book, "George W. Bush, War Criminal?"(Praeger), a question he answers in the affirmative.

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The World Prout Assembly is a non-profit organization affiliated with Proutist Universal Global Headquarters, Kolkata, India.

George W. Bush to visit Europe on speaking tour (Asia also) **Playing with FIRE.**, February 25, 2009

Arrest him.

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