Comments on: George W. Bush: Feminist Hero? http://firedoglake.com/2005/01/10/george-w-bush-feminist-hero/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: k http://firedoglake.com/2005/01/10/george-w-bush-feminist-hero/#comment-125372 k Wed, 31 May 2006 20:35:04 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2005/01/10/george-w-bush-feminist-hero/#comment-125372 <p>The summer of 2001 the Bush administration gave the Taliban $40 million either as a reward for, or to aid in, (news reports at the time were not enlightening) drug interdiction. Under the Taliban heroin production had fallen to an historical low (now it’s at a high, btw.)</p> <p>Various women’s groups protested this action, pointing out that the Taliban were incredibly opressive towards women. The press barely reported their protests, and in<br /> the miniscule column-inches they got it was hinted that these green, tree-hugging, presumably bra-less, feminists were naive as to the ways of the world when they warned us as to the character of the Taliban. Let the hard headed realists of the Bush administration do their jobs.</p> The summer of 2001 the Bush administration gave the Taliban $40 million either as a reward for, or to aid in, (news reports at the time were not enlightening) drug interdiction. Under the Taliban heroin production had fallen to an historical low (now it’s at a high, btw.)

Various women’s groups protested this action, pointing out that the Taliban were incredibly opressive towards women. The press barely reported their protests, and in
the miniscule column-inches they got it was hinted that these green, tree-hugging, presumably bra-less, feminists were naive as to the ways of the world when they warned us as to the character of the Taliban. Let the hard headed realists of the Bush administration do their jobs.

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