Friday, October 07, 2011

killing innocent people every day for 10 years

Writing from Afghanistan where the US and NATO have been making war for an entire decade now, Malalai Joya says

During these bloody years, tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed by occupation forces and terrorist groups. When Barack Obama took office in 2008, unfortunately his first news for my people was more conflict and more war. It was during Obama’s administration that civilian death tolls increased by 24%. And the result of the surge of troops of Obama’s administration is more massacres, more crimes, violence, destruction, pain, and tragedy. That’s why he has proved himself as a warmonger -- as second even more dangerous Bush.

Read the whole thing by this women's rights activist and former member of her country's parliament.

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