Sunday, July 27, 2008

The war in Afghanistan is just as bad as Iraq

The war in Afghanistan is just as bad as Iraq:
"The Forgotten War: Sonali Kolhatkar on Why Afghanistan is 'Just as Bad as Iraq"
Coming on the heels of Barack Obama’s highly publicized visit to Afghanistan—what he calls a central front in the so-called war on terror—we play an address by Pacifica radio host Sonali Kolhatkar, one of this country’s leading voices against the occupation of Afghanistan and co-author of the book Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence. She spoke last month at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis about what she called widespread misconceptions about the occupation of Afghanistan.

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