I know, I saw the president boldly get on TeeVee and say "we won", well at least I think I did, but hey, it might have been those geniuses at PIXAR™ who made a cgi-Smirk to give a speech...come to think of it, he didn't mangulate the english language once. Hmmmmmmm. Anyhow, this heartening little bit of news out of Afghanistan, seems that the AF-PAKs on the north west border want to reestablish Shariah, that's Islamic Law, as opposed to the New Rumsfeld-Bremer code (shoot, kill, te absolvo) being set up in Iraq.

Months after sweeping to power amid a surge of anti-American sentiment, a coalition of Islamic parties on Tuesday proposed laws that will make this conservative frontier region the first in Pakistan to be governed based on the mandates of the Quran, Islam's holy book.

Islamic leaders promised the bill would bring the North West Frontier Province's educational and financial systems in line with Shariah, or Islamic law. Some said they hoped the package would be the beginning of an Islamic wave that would spread throughout Pakistan.
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The renewed power of the hard-liners has caused concern in Washington, which counts Pakistan as a key ally in the war on terror. Many intelligence experts believe Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida figures may be hiding in the mountainous region between the North West Frontier Province and Afghanistan.

So, it seems that there's a chance that the worlds most wanted fugitive is involved, even if peripherally. We have wasted time, resources, effort and most of all the precious lives of our men and women in Iraq, to get a guy who was going nowhere. Meanwhile, both Mullah Omar and ObL are tweaking the tigers nose, in a country that is both unsettled (Afghanistan) after having the shit bombed out of it, and a country that has no great love of America on a good day, Pakistan.

And now the neo-cons are talking Iran? What quality of dope is John Walters bringing over to be smoked from the drug busts on the border...I'm sure President Straight Arrow is no stranger to rockin' the gange!