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Dear President Obama

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Now that Netroots Nation has sol­ved the coun­tries pro­blems I’d like to address Sena­tor Obama.

If at the end of this see­mingly infi­nite elec­tion you are vic­to­rious and decide to go finish the job we left undone in Afgha­nis­tan — as you allu­ded to recently in your mee­ting with Pre­si­dent Hamid Kar­zai, pled­ging “stead­fast aid” and all
(source) ( Obama meets Afghan pre­si­dent Kar­zai)  — con­si­der doing it right dif­fe­rently than Bushy did, finish what you start, and don’t use it as some kind of photo op publi­city stunt.

Watch MOTHERLAND AFGHANISTAN in which Afghan Ame­ri­can film­ma­ker Sedika Moja­didi follows her father (Dr. Qudrat Moja­didi) on his tra­gic trip to Afgha­nis­tan, a trip he was invi­ted on by the U.S. govern­ment to help reha­bi­li­tate the lar­gest women’s hos­pi­tal in the country, Rabia Balkhi, a hos­pi­tal which at the time was put under U.S. Spon­sorship with a newly re-named Laura Bush mater­nity ward.

With mater­nal health and both infant and mater­nal mor­ta­lity so high in Afgha­nis­tan the goal was to train and treat and to help pro­mote pro­per and effi­cient care for these women.

His arri­val to this “Laura Bush Mater­nity Ward” reveals horri­fic con­di­tions, sewage back-up and no sup­plies, which des­pite con­ti­nuing pleas from Dr Qua­drat never arrive. Though he does get let­ters from his supe­riors con­gra­tu­la­ting him on what a good job is doing.….like WTF.

He even­tually left in frus­tra­tion but went back later with pri­va­tely fun­ded orga­ni­za­tion, to a dif­fe­rent hos­pi­tal and though still a very tough road the place was at clean and had sup­plies. Something the U.S. pro­mi­sed but for some rea­son couldn’t manage to do in their great publi­city op Laura Bush Mater­nity Ward.

Don’t be afraid to ask the peo­ple of the coun­tries you are trying to help what they need, believe it or not they usually know bet­ter than we what they need and how things work in their coun­tries. Do not name a ward of a hos­pi­tal after your wife if you intend to leave floa­ting in shit. Bet­ter yet, if you do carry something like this out pro­perly name the wards after Afghani’s, after all they have suf­fe­red more, it is their country, and in the end it will be them who makes it work no mat­ter how much help we give them.

Thank You.

The Film: Mother­land Afghanistan

The film, cri­ti­ci­zed over a year ago by the NYT when is first came on Inde­pen­dent Lens as a film which would not change your view on foreign policy. Wrongly cri­ti­ci­zed in in my opi­nion. The first thing it made me see as faulty was the policy which pro­mo­tes this kind of worth­less effort by the bureauc­racy of The Depart­ment of Health Human Ser­vi­ces. So this film is worth more than a look see, and is still pla­ying on Inde­pen­dent Lens.

Peace and Happy Birth­day Miss Savage. Please go pre­vent her from shag­ging her­self to oblivion.