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.

The pundit women, more relaxed, all chilled out, stating the facts and using their reasoning skills to make their points. There wasn’t one heavy breathing fast talker among them, and not one looked like a dog trying to get untangled from her chain.

You go girls.

Contrite, I sadly recall making fun of the Iowa Cock Us. Iowans obviously know what they are doing, and can’t be bought, unless you’re selling ideas, and change.

Remember, it’s the transference of ideas to function that matters – a whole other ballgame. After all we are speaking of cock uses and politics here, it’s only fitting to mention ball games, with baseball players second only to politicians when it comes to telling lies with poker straight faces.

OK, so that was a stretch.

Snake oil salesmen, John Edwards and Mitt Romney placed second. The transcendent candidate, for the Democrats, triumphed

Blah, blah, something, something, Evangelical Republicans…

Obama gives great word though, doesn’t he?

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Young
educated
and smart
we believe
a physical
and ideological
evacuation
of “Washington”
is long overdue.

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Oh the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean