Whose Taliban Now

"The right wingers at the Blogging Tories have labeled NDP Leader Jack Layton "Taliban Jack" Ever since the NDP Convention passed a motion calling for the withdrawl of Canadian troops from the Southern Offensive in Kandahar. Well guess whose Taliban now....Karzai...

Womens Oppression Continues In Afghanistan

"Activist with Afghani organization for women’s rights RAWA tells Ynet women’s situation in Afghanistan even worse than before American invasion: Rape, kidnapping, murder go unpunished"

2021

"Thats how long NATO expects to be in Afghanistan till."

Dion Kennedy Merger

"This; Liberal leadership candidates Gerard Kennedy and Stephane Dion have held talks that could lead to an alliance that vaults one of them to first place on the final ballot at the convention next week. Explains this: Dion says Canada should withdraw its troops from...

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

"In Afghanistan. For an hour, the minister of energy and water listened in silence as his employees complained about their department's dismal image: People called them lazy, corrupt and inefficient. Customers accused them of demanding bribes for the smallest services."

Photo Says It All

"A former Soviet Heavy Lift Plane taking Canadian troops and tanks to Afghanistan....does anyone else find this ironic."

Children of War

"In Afghanistan Canadian Troops are using children to act as police while they build roads in Kandahar. Standing on Guard for Thee Someone should inform War Child that they don't have to look just at Africa for this illegal and immoral use of children as soldiers. Now War...

Out Of Iraq Into Afghanistan

"The American General James Jones calling for more troops for Afghanistan, is the same General that criticized Rumsfeld for the failed war in Iraq."

Why We Fight Redux

"This past weekend was the fifth anniversary of the American led invasion of Afghanistan. And in a stunning report from Sarah Chayes; who is one of the few American Journalists to have stayed in Afghanistan for the whole time, comes this story of why we are fighting in...

Afghanistan-Five Years After

"This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan what the U.S. did in those five years was that it refused to allow the expansion of peacekeeping troops from Kabul to the rest of the country, saying that it would interfere with the so-called hunt...

Pakistan Real Home of the Taliban

"Gee I am not even a military intelligence officer and I have been saying this for the past three months. Courtesy of the BBC Key quotes from a leaked Ministry of Defence think-tank paper which alleges that Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, has indirectly helped the...

Canadians Oppose War-Whose Taliban Now

"The rightwhing bloogers like to refer to Jack Layton as "Taliban Jack", equating the NDP position on withdrawing our troops from the warzone in Afghanistan as appeasement. Well I guess we are all Taliban now.... Afghanistan war more unpopular than ever"

Getting The Body Count Right

"The sacrifice: We count the dead. But not the injured Soldiers in Afghanistan are six times more likely to be killed than those in Iraq, new research shows. But the true cost isn't counted in bodybags alone."

Winning Friends

This is not way to win friends.....Quit crying, Musharraf tells Canada

Blog Lies About Layton

"There are a whole raft of blog lies being circulated about Jack Layton and the NDP. See: New Democratic Party::Jack Layton and New Democratic Party::Criticism "

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