Posted on 09/23/2004 12:27:59 PM PDT by Area Freeper
Human-rights organizations criticized the Bush administration Wednesday, saying in the three years since the Taliban was ousted from most of Afghanistan, the U.S. has not fulfilled promises of safety, freedom, education and health care for Afghan women.
"They have failed, misguided and betrayed Afghan women by giving them false hope," said T. Kumar, an Amnesty International advocacy director for Asia and the Pacific, at a news conference addressing Afghan women's issues. "Three years later, they are still dreaming, and it may be a pipe dream."
Kumar said he believed the Bush administration "used the Afghan women" when it said liberating them was a major reason to remove the Taliban from power. He contends that Afghan women's rights were never a concern of the Bush administration until after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
On Oct. 9, Afghan citizens are scheduled to elect a president. Millions of women are registered to vote, and most of the 19 candidates have women's issues as one focus of their political platform, Kumar said.
But there is minimal voter education in Afghanistan, and many women are expected to vote the same as their husbands or not at all, said Malaly Volpi, director of the Policy Council on Afghan Women.
"Ninety percent of Afghan women are illiterate. How will they know who to vote for?" Volpi said.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush ordered troops to Afghanistan to drive out the Taliban, which had harbored Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bush said the war also would mean freedom for Afghan women, who had few rights under the Taliban.
Since then, "remarkable progress" has been made, said White House spokesman Jim Morrell.
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lol........Pathetic.
Okay, have we heard of women being rounded up and executed on soccer fields lately?
We should have left them alone, happily kneeling in that soccer field for imagined infidelities, right?
Well, ask them how many women were hanged or beheaded last Friday night at the Soccer Stadium. That was the only " entertainment" when the Taliban ruled. You could not have a a radio, tv, or satellite dish.
Funny...I don't recall these activists being that worked up about these women's rights when the Taliban was in power.
And last I saw, women weren't getting bullets in the back of their heads in soccer stadiums under the new regime.
Nope, no progress here...
You couldn't even have a kite.
Yeah, that's right, the Bush Administration should have solved that ancient problem in a couple of years.
Sounds like a perfect breeding ground for liberals
I thought Al Queda's incestuous relationship with the Taliban was why they were removed. I missed where it said we only did if fer the wymmyns and chirens.
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This wasn't the purpose of the war in Afghanistan.
All the Leftists worried about was a golf course in Georgia. And now the A.N.S.W.E.R. monkeys want credibility by crying out for the women they turned their backs on?
If Kerry won, two days later these same jerks would be talking about women's rights blossoming all over due to the hope given by the new administration.
If the activists are so concerned why aren't they incountry helping out the poor Afghan women and children?
if they are alive then they are better off.
I guess all of those pictures of girls in school getting an education are propoganda, not really happening. And those soldiers helping them out are in on it.
I am getting so sick of the ridiculous swipes of the left.
Oh my gosh, women voting the same as their husbands? What a shocker that spouses would agree on politics?
I want to hear what they were saying when the Taliban were in power.
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