Brief Overview:
FACT #1: Jean Chretien & Canadian Corporations Involved in Trans-Afghan Pipeline
Better we leave Afghanistan with no industry at all. Well, exxcept poppies.
FACT #2: Gordon O'Connor, Defence Minister, Is Former Military Lobbyist
Next time we should get a defence minister with no contacts, knowledge or experience with the military. Only then will he be competent.
FACT #3: Current Afghan Parliament Includes Warlords and Drug Lords
That would describe pretty much any governing body in the third world. You cannot turn Kandahar into Ottawa overnight
FACT #4: Afghan Warlords Considered Bigger Threat Than Taliban
Yeah, we know. They're next.
FACT #5: Afghan Women Face Repression Despite Removal Of Taliban
Really? Wow! Maybe we should go home and STOP trying to fix it then... last I heard... they were Muslim. Maybe that might have something to do with it
FACT #6: Elected Afghan Woman Faces Death Threats For Speaking Out
See above.
FACT #7: Since the U.S.-led War, Afghanistan Is Increasingly Hooked on Heroin
Not "Hooked on", selling. The rest of the world is hooked on it. :wink: And yes we're trying to stop it.
FACT #8: U.S. And Coalition Forces Using Excessive Force & Arbitrary Detention
Regrettable. "Oh this just in... Taliban forces using suicide bombings and indiscriminate attacks!"
FACT #9: Canada Complicit In Violation of Human Rights For 'War On Terror'
Unlikely, but even if it does happen, one does not fall under the Geneva Conventions if one is a terrorist. You have to be a soldier of a recognized governing body.
FACT #10: U.S. Finds More Oil and Gas Reserves After 4-Year Search
Good, the Afghanis have some modernization and actual prosperity to look forward too. May get them to give up the whole Heroin trade thing..