Old Guy:

George Bush removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, thereby eliminating their executions of women accused of adultery. We saw one of those executions taped secretly. We also saw barrels of hands cut off as punishment for theft.

You misspelled "Dubya's good buddies, the Saudi royal family" and "Saudi Arabia". But news for you, Old Guy: Dubya hasn't removed these repressive people yet. They still stone adulterers to death and cut off hands.

On another note, the "emancipation" of women in Afghanistan has had a few setbacks along the way, with the Taliban (still in control in wide swaths) and/or tribal chiefs and warlords giving at best lip-service to the new "freedoms", while in practise, it's almost as difficult nowadays for women to do anything in Afghanistan outside the capitol....

Cheers,