This is just plain nauseating.
Notice that the new laws were signed but Karzai. Recall Bush toting Karzai around everywhere like a new found toy during his all too painfully long regime.
NY Times: Afghan Husbands Win Right to Starve Wives
Last week, though, Human Rights Watch discovered that a revised version of the Shiite Personal Status Law had been quietly put into effect at the end of July — meaning that Shiite men in Afghanistan now have the legal right to starve their wives if their sexual demands are not met and that Shiite women must obtain permission from their husbands to even leave their houses, “except in extreme circumstances.”
The new law was signed by President Hamid Karzai...
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In Afghanistan the nastiest m-f'er is the real one in charge. Deals get made under the table with a wink and some promises of cooperation. Its right out of caveman times. The country is blanketed with fundamentalism of the worst kind. In that mix there probably are a majority of people who are decent. Its misery on misery. Why we are in Afghanistan is beyond me as well.
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