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Afghans shave beards and ditch veils in Mazar
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Posted on 11/11/2001 7:30:12 AM PST by McGruff
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Let Freedom Ring!
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posted on
11/11/2001 7:30:12 AM PST
by
McGruff
To: McGruff
Thermidor in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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posted on
11/11/2001 7:38:49 AM PST
by
Clive
To: McGruff
TIME TO PARTY,
(sponsored by the Gillette Safety Razor Company)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
This sounds like a fun gig to attend. Lets party.
I bet they are enjoying some great herb tea and the finest in cassette music.
Thank goodness those damn "burqha" are losing fashionability, too.
To: McGruff
"...Women began to appear on the streets without the concealment of the all-enveloping burqa mandated by the Taliban, AIP said... Although it's not noted in this article, this marked a crucial moment in the deconstruction of the Tali-whackers.
'Why?' you ask...
Just this... If the women had allowed the burqa-madness to lull them into 'letting themselves go' we might well have seen a very negative response to their sudden self revelation.
The sight of wall to wall fat, hairy, greasy-haired women could have sparked a counter-revolution.
Thank goodness those Afghan women kept themselves up! (within the limits imposed by their stone-age existence, of course)
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posted on
11/11/2001 7:45:06 AM PST
by
DWSUWF
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Of course if they start playing "Who let the dogs out" or something by the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, or Barry Manilowthey might start banning music again ;-). Just kidding, but it is good news!
To: McGruff
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posted on
11/11/2001 7:48:14 AM PST
by
JCG
To: McGruff
As someone somewhere on FreeRepublic said earlier, "Those planes overhead? That's the sound of Freedom, son."
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posted on
11/11/2001 7:49:33 AM PST
by
Samwise
To: mlibertarianj
Of course if they start playing "Who let the dogs out" or something by the Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, or Barry Manilowthey might start banning music again ;-). Remember 'Mars Attacks'?
To: McGruff
We owe it to these people to make sure that the Taliban cannot regroup and come back. It's going to be a lot easier for the women to throw the burquas back on than it will be for the men to grow new beards. If the Taliban should re-take Mazar i-Sharif, there will a lot of clean-shaven dead guys. We can't allow that to happen. |
To: Clive
"Thermidor in Mazar-i-Sharif."
There's a lot of facets to that statement.
To: McGruff
whooooohoooooo!!!Hot-dog!! yeeehaah!!
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posted on
11/11/2001 8:04:37 AM PST
by
muggs
To: McGruff
Sounds like the local men have confidence that the Northern Alliance will hold the city for at least 90 days (time for their hair to grow back).
To: McGruff
Guess that ban on western gear doesn't apply to OBL, apparently he has an affinity for our military camo's and really, really, really big Timex watches.
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posted on
11/11/2001 8:05:36 AM PST
by
DKNY
To: McGruff
I'll bet they
did.
I mentioned on a different thread this whole xformation reminds me of the film depicting the last days of Adolf Hitler in his bunker with those who'd surrounded him.
When these people heard the gunshot from Adolf's & Eva's room, they all filed outa that hole in the ground, & lit-up a cigarette.
Fanaticism vanquished, political or religious, has an uplifting effect.
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posted on
11/11/2001 8:06:08 AM PST
by
Landru
To: McGruff
But even in the southern city of Kandahar, powerbase of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, a sight unseen for more than five years had appeared on the streets in recent weeks -- shops selling music cassettes and even CDs. Witnesses say the religious police have virtually disappeared there after the ministry building in Kandahar was the target of several U.S. bombs last month. This is the best counterargument to peaceniks ever. US bombs killed a few bad guys and thus made the world a better place.
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: McGruff
"...the feared Ministry of the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice."I think they have branches in this country:
they are known as the Politically Correct Police.
Their motto is a take-off on Fox News; "You report, and We Decide."
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posted on
11/11/2001 8:48:14 AM PST
by
ThinkNot
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To: Nick Danger
We can't allow that to happen. Yes, I hope to h-ll that truck caravans are on the road to reinforce the city and provide a boost in the local diet. This would be both a strategic and a political move.
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