Karzai rigged the election to secure another seven years in office as president of Afghanistan, which means seven more years of corruption.
Posted on 08/23/2009 5:09:41 PM PDT by myknowledge
The main challenger to President Karzai accused him yesterday of rigging last week’s Afghan presidential election as investigators began wading through hundreds of complaints that could leave the country in political limbo for more than three weeks.
However, Abdullah Abdullah told The Times that he would challenge alleged fraud only through legal channels, rather than calling his supporters out in protest, and would accept defeat if it was ultimately confirmed by election bodies.
His moderate stance — after talks with US officials — eased short-term fears that the country could split along ethnic lines and erupt in protest after Mr Karzai and Mr Abdullah both claimed a first-round victory on Friday.
Western officials already wrestling with a Taleban insurgency fear that political unrest would exacerbate a situation that Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, admitted yesterday was “serious and deteriorating”.
The scale of the alleged fraud now threatens to undermine the entire election process, which is seen as a test of international efforts to defeat the Taleban and build democracy in Afghanistan.
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Karzai rigged the election to secure another seven years in office as president of Afghanistan, which means seven more years of corruption.
I didn’t know that ACORN was in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is repeating what Iran did. You think one would learn not to rig an election when your neighbor does and faces massive uprising and violence, but I guess not.
If the Lion of Panjshir had lived I wonder how different the situation would be.
I didn’t know Karzai was a democrat.
He’s not just a DemospLabRat, he is a puppet of the occupation forces.
Corruption is rife, the politicians watching each others’ backs, slow reconstruction process, limited government influence outside Kabul and decrepit utilities and infrastructure.
That sounds like Washington DC and every state run by democrats....Gee whiz, what are they going to build in place of the World Trade Center in NYC. The infrastructure in many states are horrible. Look at New Orleans. Our politicans have been at it longer than Karazi. He's trying to set up a government in a war torn country..
What occupation forces are you talking about?
“Serpenthead” Carville was advising Ashraf Ghani [sp?], an opponent of Karzai. Maybe Al Gore was advising this guy. ;-)
Corrupt elections in Afghanistan? I'm shocked! Didn't we have tens of thousands of Americans there to show them how an honest elect........Ok maybe not.
OMG any one serpenthead is advising has got to be a jerk and an a$$hol-. That should be enough for Karzai to win...
Carter is all over this...give it a few. /s
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