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  • 'Code Pink' Rethinks Its Call for Afghanistan Pullout (Hell freezes over alert)

    10/06/2009 2:25:01 PM PDT · by kristinn · 114 replies · 6,893+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | Tuesday, October 6, 2009 | Aunohita Mojumdar
    Kabul, Afghanistan - When Medea Benjamin stood up in a Kabul meeting hall this weekend to ask Masooda Jalal if she would prefer more international troops or more development funds, the cofounder of US antiwar group Code Pink was hoping her fellow activist would support her call for US troop withdrawal. She was disappointed. Ms. Jalhal, the former Afghan minister of women, bluntly told her both were needed. "It is good for Afghanistan to have more troops – more troops committed with the aim of building peace and against war, terrorism, and security – along with other resources," she answered....