Great ally ya got there, Bush

These are the dogs Bush decides to lie down with? Kewl. Perhaps you champion them because you would like the same protections.

The United Nations office in Afghanistan has voiced strong opposition to the Afghan parliament's approval of a bill granting immunity to war-criminals and exempting them from judicial proceedings.

The parliament, with a strong warlord presence and after a week of heated debates, approved a bill Wednesday that grants immunity to all individuals involved in atrocities in the past two-and-a-half decades, including the Taliban and war criminals from the country's 1992-1996 civil war.

No sane person thinks its right to excuse atrocities for Christ sake. Got it?

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