She is an Afghan politician who has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." As an elected member of the Wolesi Jirga from Farah province, she publicly denounced the presence of what she considers warlords and war criminals in the parliament. ANd here's what she says about the current situation in Afghanistan:

The truth about Afghanistan has been hidden behind a smoke screen of words and images carefully crafted by the United States and its NATO allies and repeated without question by the Western media.

You may have been led to believe that once the Taliban was driven from power, justice returned to my country. Afghan women like me, voting and running for office, have been held up as proof that the U.S. military has brought democracy and women's rights to Afghanistan.

But it is all a lie, dust in the eyes of the world.

The United States has tried to justify its occupation with rhetoric about "liberating" Afghan women, but we remain caged in our country, without access to justice and still ruled by women-hating criminals. Fundamentalists still preach that "a woman should be in her house or in the grave." In most places it is still not safe for a woman to appear in public uncovered, or to walk on the street without a male relative. Girls are still sold into marriage. Rape goes unpunished every day.

A cursory look at the precedent setting Us state secrets case - United States v. Reynolds, the Air Force lied to the court in order to prevent an accident report from being introduced into evidence, claiming secrets would be revealed.

In spite of the fact the Court learned later that its decision was based on fraud, the state secrets precedent was established.

Look through the Constitution and let me know where it says anything about the Executive's power to invoke state secrets in order to thwart the judiciary.

I want to hear that unhinged, passionate kind of hatred that was directed at Bush for eight years straight

Hate to burst your bubble, you obnoxious shithead, but the criticism of Bush was neither unhinged nor hatred. It was based upon action after action by a criminal mind, including but not limited to:

1. Ignoring the threat of al-Qaida and allowing the US to be hit be terrorists

2. Lying about weapons of mass destruction and a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida thus justifying invading Iraq

3. Refusing to negotiate with the Taliban to obtain the turnover of bin Laden to a third party country

3. Ordering `1,000's of felonies by means of warrantless wiretaps, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978

4. Polluting the DoJ with totally incompetent political appointees

5. Ignoring the warnings of Gen. Shinseki and others on required troop strength

6. Allowing bin Laden to escape in Afghanistan and invading Iraq, causing the deaths of 700,000 Iraqis

7. Katrina

8. Totally failing to perform oversight of regulatory processes leading to the economic meltdown and bailouts

9. Pouring $2,000,000,000,000.00 down rat holes in the desert; money that could have funded Social Security for 75 years; and

10. etc, etc, etc, etc, etc

Please just shut the fuck up now.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson et alii would have been hung as traitors and terrorists. It all depends on whose ox is being gored.

I have no mouth and I must scream . . . .

We could start with the European conquest of the Middle East when the French and Brits determined the boundary lines for Palestine, Syria and Iraq post WWI. The overthrow of governments in Iraq and Iran, the Brit invasion during Suez, the US invasion of Lebanon, the propping up of monarchical dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait because they work with our corporate oil company overlords, our midless support of Israel no matter how many UN dicta they ignore, the fomenting of the Iraq/Iran war that caused 1,000,000 casualties (during which we provided the chemicals for Saddams use of chemical warfare on Iranians and Kurds, thansk to Rumsfeld), the okaying of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and then double-crossing him in Gulf War I (in which thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed by the US), the cynical use of Islamic fundamentalist Muj to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union (who in retrospect were fighting the same Islamic fundamentalism WE are now fighting) . . and the fact that Osama bin Laden told us exactly what he was required to do (wage defensivce jihad) as long as we had infidel troops stationed on Islamic soil in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

All that happened BEFORE 9/11. And it was all avoidable . . .

are the kind of renditions that led to Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan,saying:

The CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program. I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles . . . I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on.

The continuing refusal of the Obama Administration to prosecute these criminals is a war crime unto itself.

we had a Department of Justice and an FBI willing to enforce the law, no matter whose ox was being gored. Does anyone think the FBI or that ni**er loving Bobby Kenney were popular in the South as a result?

When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, he said he knew the Dems were losing the South for a generation, but he had the courage to sign anyway.

Obama is hesitant to prosecute torturers and war criminals because it might be seen as partisan, or looking backward, and might not poll well. Shameful.