Bush: “Taliban no longer is in existence.”
“That’s why I said to the Taliban in Afghanistan: Get rid of al Qaeda; see, you’re harboring al Qaeda. Remember this is a place where they trained — al Qaeda trained thousands of people in Afghanistan. And the Taliban, I guess, just didn’t believe me. And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence.” [Bush, 9/27/04]
There’s estimates that 90 percent of the country — at least a very large percent of the country, is under the occupation of the Taliban and the warlords.” [Rep. Paul (R-TX)., Remarks to House Committee on International Relations, 9/23/04]
Taliban Violence Threatens Elections: The pre-election period has been marred by repeated attacks against voter registration workers and facilities, mostly carried out by Taliban forces. The Taliban has vowed to sabotage the election — the first national poll in Afghanistan in three decades of war and turmoil, and the country’s first-ever presidential election. [Washington Post, 9/17/04]
“There is no Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe.” — Gerald Ford, 1976
[The first three quotes come from a mailing from the Kerry campaign.]
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….well, yankee and their subordinate countries have delivered the poor afghans from the talibans btu at what price??? poor those afghans, change of masters is alawys welcome…and hope that f… bast… will not be-relected for world’s relief.amen
This past Sunday, I broke the breaking news about Rove being the leak in the Valerie Plame crime to the actors backstage at the Mark Taper Forum, where the play Stuff Happens is in its last two weeks. It was weird. I was telling George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney that Karl Rove probably broke the law by leaking Valerie Plame’s cover to the press.
Well, I was telling the actors who play those parts. It’s a shame there’s no Karl Rove in the play. It would have been positively surreal to tell that actor that his character was, hopefully, only weeks away from the Frog March.
Backstage at the Taper being a decidedly Blue State, there was a sense of eagerness, which has now, a few days later, settled into a kind of cynical hope. We’ve all realized that these sleaze bags are going to get the best lawyers in the world to try to weazel them out of this.