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CrawlingChaos Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-14-09 09:27 PM
Response to Reply #46
47. here you go
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10301597.html

I tend to believe the article above, not only because the video looks fake to me (it seems a very gentle flogging relative to the huge amount of screaming) but because it makes no sense for them to deny it if it's real. Not a very effective deterrent that way.

Remember the widely peddled story about babies being chucked out of incubators prior to the first gulf war? Same type deal.

I'm not denying the Taliban is a repressive regime. I just don't believe our gov't gives two shits about human rights abuses, except when it makes a convenient propaganda tool for selling us on more war. Hell, they don't even care about human rights abuses here in the States.
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  -Afghan women's rights activist slain (by Taliban) Coventina  Apr-13-09 09:56 AM   #0 
  - Sigh - if we could just airlift all the Afghani Women to the US  Taverner   Apr-13-09 10:01 AM   #1 
  - agree, but since that won't happen lets go after the religiously insane leaders  ensho   Apr-13-09 10:16 AM   #2 
     - "The Women" of Afghanistan would rather that "The Invaders" leave their country and let THEM  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 03:47 PM   #23 
        - Regroup in areas close ?  ohio2007   Apr-13-09 05:21 PM   #33 
        - Yea let's let them take care of it  get the red out   Apr-14-09 06:23 AM   #39 
  - Motherf*ckers  cagesoulman   Apr-13-09 10:34 AM   #3 
  - Yes our puppet "Ther Mayor of Kabul" really has a  saigon68   Apr-13-09 01:35 PM   #14 
     - Only on what's important  subsuelo   Apr-13-09 03:22 PM   #18 
  - I hate these men  get the red out   Apr-13-09 12:47 PM   #4 
  - Russia pulled out of Afghanistan. n/t  bitchkitty   Apr-13-09 12:50 PM   #5 
  - Only after we heavily armed the taliban  JVS   Apr-13-09 01:14 PM   #8 
  - The Taliban didn't form until 1994.  scrinmaster   Apr-13-09 03:57 PM   #26 
     - thats because they had to "deal" with the other tribal groups that were also  ohio2007   Apr-13-09 05:24 PM   #34 
  - Osama Bin Laden  get the red out   Apr-13-09 01:27 PM   #10 
  - It's time for the Great USA War Machine follow the Russians before we GO BROKE - morally/financially  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 03:49 PM   #24 
  - I think your heart is in the right place...  Runcible Spoon   Apr-14-09 04:51 PM   #44 
  - We tried to bomb them back to the stone age  Blandocyte   Apr-13-09 12:50 PM   #6 
  - This war will end badly  Bragi   Apr-13-09 12:52 PM   #7 
  - It ended badly  get the red out   Apr-13-09 01:28 PM   #11 
  - The Taliban were/are accepted because they provide "security", we need to provide an alternative  Turborama   Apr-13-09 01:33 PM   #13 
     - As soon as security is not provided - troops rotate - POOF! Back come the Taliban.  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 04:18 PM   #30 
  - She is a hero- She didn't have to come back, but she did, to help others.  Marrah_G   Apr-13-09 01:21 PM   #9 
  - Democrats need to be reminded  get the red out   Apr-13-09 01:30 PM   #12 
     - No, Democrats need to be reminded of the lessons of Vietnam - The natives are going nowhere.  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 03:52 PM   #25 
        - Stop the abuse THEN the standard of living will come up.  IDFbunny   Apr-13-09 04:25 PM   #31 
        - NO, I see you haven't lived in countries where "abject poverty" abounds. I have.  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 04:40 PM   #32 
        - Your claim that these women are NATIONALISTS does not make them PRO-TALIBAN  Coventina   Apr-14-09 09:20 AM   #41 
  - "What You Should Know About Women's Rights in Afghanistan"  Turborama   Apr-13-09 01:37 PM   #15 
  - How sad  Haole Girl   Apr-13-09 01:42 PM   #16 
  - Are males inherently evil  get the red out   Apr-13-09 01:47 PM   #17 
  - However, don't think for one moment that we continue to occupy either Iraq or Afghanistan ...  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 03:30 PM   #19 
  - Religion always serves as a good reason  get the red out   Apr-13-09 03:35 PM   #20 
  - Please take a look at post #13  Turborama   Apr-13-09 03:36 PM   #21 
     - No, our soldiers are there as a foothold. We need to get out. Religion is not the only  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 03:43 PM   #22 
        - OK, seems like you don't get what I was saying in post #13  Turborama   Apr-13-09 04:01 PM   #27 
           - No, I read your post #13. That's not HOW IT IS in reality. We are already negotiating with  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 04:13 PM   #29 
              - #13 was life without music,children's kites and pure obedience.to the rigid law givers  ohio2007   Apr-13-09 06:26 PM   #35 
              - And you want US in the middle of this culture / nations strife? ... they're NOT our neighbors?!?  ShortnFiery   Apr-13-09 06:31 PM   #36 
              - ...it's a small world afterall  ohio2007   Apr-14-09 08:10 AM   #40 
              - staged video  CrawlingChaos   Apr-14-09 06:27 PM   #45 
                 - ARe you saying the Taliban never banned music? not even on buses?  ohio2007   Apr-14-09 08:02 PM   #46 
                    - here you go  CrawlingChaos   Apr-14-09 09:27 PM   #47 
                       - Are these scenes staged as well?  Turborama   Apr-14-09 10:04 PM   #48 
              - So, we leave Afghanistan to enable long lasting reconstruction?  Turborama   Apr-14-09 04:23 PM   #42 
  - No, but these muslim men killing and raping women for allah are  ShareTheWoods   Apr-13-09 07:16 PM   #38 
  - That is horrific  LeftishBrit   Apr-13-09 04:06 PM   #28 
  - :( these people are (were) so brave  Reterr   Apr-13-09 07:16 PM   #37 
  - This is a devastating tragedy.  Runcible Spoon   Apr-14-09 04:43 PM   #43 
 

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