From: John Cuccia 

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:07:48 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>
>"John Cuccia"  wrote: Afghanistan
is quickly reverting
>to the state it was
>> in before we started bombing it.
>
>Not at all. Why so many liberals want to believe that is beyond me.


Because we read reports from sources other than the Bush apologists?


http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney02202004.html
Things are no better for the people living outside of Kabul than they were
under the Taliban. The warlords and narco-traffickers are no less brutal
then their predecessors and justice is as arbitrary as it was before.
Although, both the UN and NATO have indicated that they will accept some
role in bringing law and order to the countryside, nothing yet has
materialized. As Mullah Omar was recently quoted, "How successful have
the American's been in bringing democracy to Afghanistan?"


http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2004%20News%20archives/Feb/20%20n/Vi
llagers%20Spot%20Hundreds%20of%20Taleban%20in%20Zabul.htm
"KANDAHAR, 20 February 2004 — Hundreds of Taleban fighters have
regrouped in the southern Zabul province, undermining the central
government’s efforts to establish control in the months before crucial
presidential elections, Afghan officials said yesterday."


http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5179.shtml
"February 16, 2004-The Bush administration has begun suggesting that
Afghanistan's elections scheduled for June may have to be postponed because
of security problems and the failure to register enough voters.

Administration officials said in recent days that security conditions
remained dangerous or at least uncertain in a third of the country,
hampering registration so badly that only 8 percent of eligible Afghan
voters have been enrolled. Among women, only 2 percent have registered.
"

and from the same article

"The administration official said it was very likely that the
parliamentary elections, as opposed to presidential elections, would be
postponed, possibly until next year, because even beyond security concerns,
there were difficulties in setting district boundaries, choosing candidates
and organizing political parties for the parliamentary elections. "


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/7978492.htm
"Violence rages largely unabated in some regions of the country more
than two years after U.S.-led forces ousted the hard-line Taliban regime.
On Tuesday, fighters loyal to two senior Afghan government officials
exchanged gunfire in a bazaar in southern Kandahar provinces, wounding four
people, police said."

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