Karzai publicly admits he’s a Bush puppet
Hamid Karzai is Bush’s puppet ruler in Kabul, Afghanistan. His personal bodyguard is U.S. Marines.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Karzai said he accepts the label of puppet in return for U.S. support of him.
"Americans have helped Afghanistan tremendously. If I am called a puppet because I am grateful to America, then let that be my nickname.”
He said things in Afghanistan are improving despite the increasing violence.
"Some parts of the country are better than last year. Some parts of the country are not better than last year.”
He also said Osama bin Laden would eventually be caught.
In England, Lord Ashdown – leader of the Liberal Democrats – said of Afghanistan, "We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely.”
Karzai is from a village called Karz, which is now crowded with the makeshift tents of people running away from recent battles. Everyone in the village agrees that the situation in Afghanistan is getting worse.
Abdul Baki is the deputy director of a school in Karz. He said he's nostalgic for the days of Taliban law and order.
"The fighting gets worse and worse. Under the Taliban we had better security, no corruption, no stealing, no murders. Now we have a better economy, but the economy is mostly for rich people."
In 2007 the occupying forces killed more than 6,000 Afghani people, according to reports by the Associated Press. The USA has killed about 40,000 Afghans since invading in October 2001.
Tens of thousands of Afghan people have fled their homes in central and southern Afghanistan since the resurgence of the Taliban and the associated flare-up in fighting began in 2006. The fighting continues to this day.
The Taliban are a collection of tribal groups loyal to their historical roots (and to warlords) who have no understanding of what the USA understands as a "country."
In 1893, the British Raj drew a line on a map, and called it “Afghanistan.” Although it has never been governed in the way we expect national governments to govern, Afghanistan's several parts have shared a common economy in the production of opium.
In 2002, United Nations drug-control officers said the Taliban religious militia had nearly wiped out opium production. By 2007, Afghanistan became the largest opium-producing country in the world, producing 3,750 tons, which is 75 per cent of the world's opium.
Soldiers are supposed to destroy opium crops, but they don't, since they know it will make everyone shoot at them. Under military occupation, opium is the only thing that keeps many Afghans alive. They make about $5,200 from an acre of opium, but can only make $121 from an acre of wheat.
Last week, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said other countries' troops in southern Afghanistan lacked counter- insurgency skills.
Musharraf is only just in charge of Pakistan. Karzai only controls parts of Kabul.
Instead of sending peace-makers, teachers, engineers, doctors, and nurses, the USA and Canada send people with weapons and heavy artillery. Canada has 2,500 troops in Afghanistam, but only 47 aid workers. The U.S. Agency for International Development has spent more than $4.4 billion in Afghanistan since 2002, but U.S. military spending in 2007 alone was $35 billion.
Where does that money go? According to the British-based international aid agency, Oxfam, it goes to pay high salaries for officials and administrators. Oxfam says aid-spending on Afghanistan has been only a small fraction (about 3 per cent) of the military expenditure, and most aid money is siphoned off in corruption.
Oxfam warns that urgent action is needed to avert a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, where millions face "severe hardship comparable with sub-Saharan Africa."
Vigilant Strategic Services Afghanistan has already counted 389 violent incidents across the country in the first three weeks of 2008, up 15 per cent from the same period last year. Fighting normally dies down in the snow – but not this winter. Some Western observers think a much bigger war is coming.
Even among the usually upbeat commanders at Kandahar Air Field, the mood seemed grim yesterday after the death of another Canadian soldier, Corporal Étienne Gonthier.
Combat deaths in Afghanistan are typically followed by statements from military officials who describe the sacrifice as part of a “winning effort.” Brigadier-General Guy Laroche broke with that tradition, saying little except that an expected winter lull in Taliban attacks has not happened.
"We don't see a big difference between what we saw last summer and what we see now,” Brig.-Gen. Laroche said. "The tempo is the same."
A Western analyst said he expects the resistance to increase in 2008, and spread further into Afghanistan, adding that NATO doesn't have enough troops to halt the trend. A Rand Corporation study stated that NATO needs 20 soldiers per 1000 inhabitants to wipe out the Taliban, which translates to about 500,000. The NATO coalition currently has only 30,000 to 50,000 -- enough to kill civilians on a daily basis, but not enough to control even a small part of Afghanistan, which has 30 million people. Canada maintains more than 2,500 troops in the country, mainly in the dangerous southern province of Kandahar.
Malalai Joya, 29, is the youngest female member of Afghanistan’s parliament. She said, "Foreign invasion is not a solution for the disastrous situation of Afghanistan. As our history demonstrates, we don’t want occupation. Six years of Western military occupation clearly show that these armies have not come to provide us with security. The U.S. and its allies, including Canada, are supporting the sworn enemies of our people. One day they will be faced with the massive resistance of our people, as our history shows.”
Occupying NATO forces cannot trust the local Afghan army and police with sophisticated equipmen, for fear that it will fall into the hands of the resistance, or that the local officers themselves will desert regular government forces and join the Taliban.
Last Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada will be in Afghanistan indefinitely. A panel headed by former Liberal cabinet minister John Manley recommended a multi-year extension beyond the current deadline of February 2009, but admitted the mission has gone badly. Insurgent attacks are on the rise and security is fragile. "The mission is in jeopardy," Manley told a news conference.
I wish the other puppets of the Zionists, who are ruling Muslim countries, will be as frank as Kharzai. But whether they admit or not, the Muslim people know who they are being ruled by.
The Truth Will Set You Free on Afghani President Hamid Karzai admitting that he is indeed an American puppet.
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