stepping back to 2008...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/americas/Lady-condemns-Taliban-attack/Article1-351382.aspx
“First Lady Bush condemns Taliban acid attack on schoolgirls”
Afghanistan, November 14, 2008
First Published: 10:49 IST(14/11/2008)
Last Updated: 16:28 IST(14/11/2008)
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SNIPPET: “First Lady Laura Bush condemned on Thursday a recent assault on Afghani schoolgirls, describing the act as “cowardly and shameful.”
On Wednesday adult male attackers used a water pistol to spray acid at schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, hurting 15 of them, three seriously.
“My heart goes out to the victims and their families as they recover from this cruel attack,” said Bush in a statement.
Kandahar and other large Afghan cities have suffered from a surge of assassinations and bombings by the radical Islamist Taliban movement.
Bush commended Afghani women and girls for thriving in a country where just nine years ago, under Taliban rule that lasted between 1996 and 2001, women were denied many basic rights, includingf trading.”
So you’re saying the Taliban is bad?