http://www.letterneversent.com/the-iraq-torture-scandal/1302/ Tell me when to go. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.letterneversent.com/the-iraq-torture-scandal/1302/comment-page-1/#comment-971 susan Fri, 07 May 2004 15:31:28 +0000 http://www.letterneversent.com/index.php/archives/2004/05/06/the-iraq-torture-scandal/#comment-971 As someone who did activism around Afghanistan women's issues way before 9-11, I am totally certain that women's rights have nothing to do with anyone's motivations when it comes to the U.S.'s involvement in Afghanistan or Iraq. The Clinton administration did nothing but make sympathetic statements about women's plight under the Taliban, while allowing American oil companies to enter into profitable contracts with them. They definitely cared more about their heroin production, which is not saying much. The Bush administration didn't give a rat's ass about what the Taliban did to Afghan women until it became a convenient rationalization to try to add legitimacy to their attack on the country. As someone who did activism around Afghanistan women’s issues way before 9-11, I am totally certain that women’s rights have nothing to do with anyone’s motivations when it comes to the U.S.’s involvement in Afghanistan or Iraq. The Clinton administration did nothing but make sympathetic statements about women’s plight under the Taliban, while allowing American oil companies to enter into profitable contracts with them. They definitely cared more about their heroin production, which is not saying much. The Bush administration didn’t give a rat’s ass about what the Taliban did to Afghan women until it became a convenient rationalization to try to add legitimacy to their attack on the country.

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