She is parroting the party line, completely oblivious to the fact that the Afghan people are worse off today than they were under the tyranny of the Taliban, as hard as that is to believe.
Just because she is Hillary, she should not get a free pass when we won't give one to the likes of John Kerry for saying the same shit.
There are two recent reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq, a situation that most Americans are blissfully ignorant about. Many of our compatriots are convinced that women and girls are doing better now than they were before we reduced that country to rubble. Nothing is further from the truth!
It is particularly sad when someone of the stature of a Hillary Clinton praises a useless undemocratic turd like Karzai and his fictional government.
Afghanistan: Warlords Implicated in New AbusesReport Details Threats to Women's Rights, Freedom of Expression
(New York, July 29, 2003) - Afghan warlords and political strongmen supported by the United States and other nations are engendering a climate of fear in Afghanistan that is threatening efforts to adopt a new constitution and could derail national elections scheduled for mid-2004, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The report warns that violence, political intimidation, and attacks on women and girls are discouraging political participation and endangering gains made on women's rights in Afghanistan over the last year.
"Human rights abuses in Afghanistan are being committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United States and its coalition partners after the Taliban fell in 2001," said Brad Adams, executive director of the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. "These men and others have essentially hijacked the country outside of Kabul. With less than a year to go before national elections, Afghanistan's human rights situation appears to be worsening."
http://hrw.org/press/2003/07/afghan072903.htm"During the Taleban era if a woman went to market and showed an inch of flesh she would have been flogged, now she's raped."
Amnesty International, 6 October 2003
Afghanistan: No justice and security for women
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, 6 October 2003
Abuses perpetrated by armed groups against women and girls since the fall of the Taleban government in November 2001 include rape, abduction, and forced and underage marriage. The exact extent and prevalence of such abuses remains unclear owing to the reluctance of most victims to speak out and the limited capacity for monitoring. However, the opening of regional offices of the AIHRC is beginning to increase the amount of available information about such violence. The initial work by the AIHRC in this area indicates that the abuse of women by armed groups is so common that the body's research department has decided to maintain a separate category in its files for such incidents.
Amnesty International's research indicates a systematic pattern of abuse against women and girls in Mazar-e Sharif, and incidence of abuse in both Nangarhar and Bamiyan provinces. Human Rights Watch has reported on the occurrence of rape of women, girls and boys in southeast Afghanistan, including in Laghman, Ghazni, Gardez and Nangarhar provinces, and in Paghman district of Kabul province.
Incidents reported to Amnesty International included the rape of four girls by members of an armed group. The youngest, aged 12, was unconscious as a result of her injuries when brought to hospital by her parents. UNAMA has investigated a number of incidents of abuse of women and girls by members of armed groups, including incidence of forced marriage of girls as young as 12.
http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ai-women2.htmFull Amnesty International Report:http://www.web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa110232003