zonder, I documented one of Robert Scheer's lies earlier.
Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times
Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.
That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.
robertscheer.com
The truth:
The announcement on May 17 by Colin Powell specifically stated that the $43 million aid package(65,000 tons of wheat, $5 million in complementary food commodities, and $10 million in other livelihood and food security programs) was provided through the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations to the people of Afghanistan.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2001/2928.htm |
