Reply #5: Whoops. Time to send Laura out on another tour to tell us how wonderful things are in Afghanistan.

[tanyev]

2005:

“Thanks to you, the Taliban is gone. Thanks to you more than eight million men and women in Afghanistan voted in the free elections. Thanks to you millions of little girls are going to school in this country-little girls who were denied the education just three years ago… These are big goals, and you’ve met every one of them with courage and honor,” she said.

She told the troops of her visit to Kabul University, and how encouraged she was that so many women were being trained to be teachers and educators, and said the women were “relishing” their newfound freedom.

“Each act of independence helps the roots of democracy grow stronger, and your work made all this possible.”

Mrs. Bush concluded her remarks by thanking the servicemembers again for everything they were doing in Afghanistan and for every hardship and sacrifice they endure for the cause of freedom.

http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/mar2005/a033105wm2.html