Afghanistan: another occupation going off the rails.

...The recent military actions have killed scores of villagers, despite occupation claims that they targeted only 'Taliban' fighters. And while the US has engaged in war crimes and drafted war criminals into its puppet administration, the money sent as reconstruction aid has largely been spent on firms like Halliburton and on the erection of a modern mini-city for occupation bureacrats, NGOs and credulous reporters in Kabul (oooh, they've got the internet, wow). The police engage in routine corruption and brutality, such as the attempt to rape girls in school dormitories. As in Iraq, reporters largely take the word of the occupiers to account for their activities - we are told that bombs have killed 40 'suspected Taliban' in a 'secret hideout', for instance. Even Karzai has had to utter a word or two of meek criticism, noting that between 500 and 600 Afghanis had been killed over four weeks and that "Even if they are Taliban, they are sons of this land...

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