Bush triumphalism masks mission unaccomplished in Afghanistan - analysts

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=696&e=7&u=/afp/20041016/ts_afp/us_vote_afghanistan

KABUL, (AFP) - Three years after the US-led invasion, Afghanistan (news - web sites) is flooding the world with heroin, warlords reign in the provinces, women are scared and the new security forces are underarmed and undersized, analysts say.

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"Bush has painted a rosier picture than exists on the ground... and expressed success prematurely," said Vikram Parekh, Afghan affairs analyst for the International Crisis Group.

"When Bush presents Afghanistan as a country which has made great strides towards democracy, those claims lack credibility," Riffat Hussein, head of strategic studies at Pakistan's Quaid-e-Azam University, told AFP.

Hussein and others cite three yardsticks for improvement in the war-torn central Asian land in the last three years: the creation of a national security force; eradicating opium poppies; and disarming warlords' militias.
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[Born Free]

1. the bush coward is not equal to a wart on his daddy's ass

The bush coward hides behind constant lies, this "mommas baby" tries to portray a picture that he is tougher than his dad but in reality he is a waste, as the old saying went, the best part of the coward bush ran down his mommas leg. They can keep tellinglies, they can keep pretending all is well, but the bush coward is nothing more than a pathetic mommas baby hiding behind lies, and eventually the truth will come out. The bush coward truly is a loser in everything, he is just being propped up to look like something he is not.

[Fridays Child]

2. A five and a kick

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