Afghan Elections go to second round
October 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm by David FarrarPresident Hamid Karzai has agreed to face a second round of voting in Afghanistan’s disputed election after a UN-led fraud inquiry tossed out enough of his votes to trigger a run-off.
It was a corrupt election, but good to see the UN in this case stood up to the local Government, and as a result there will be a second round of voting. Karzai would have lacked legitimacy if he had refused a second round.
The challenge now is for him and/or his supporters not to create fake votes next time. If the second round is as corrupt as the first round, it will reduce the moral legitimacy of the Government, and make it harder for the NATO led effort to continue.
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October 21st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
yeah
not create fake votes, Want to take a bet on that?
Some are putting all the eggs in the basket on this.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/lose_afghanistan_lose_pakistan.html at October 20, 2009 – 06:46:03 PM EDT
Vote:October 21st, 2009 at 12:49 pm
This is another proof that implementing the western concept of democracy in Afganistan is a waste of time.
Vote:October 21st, 2009 at 12:55 pm
We put in place and have supported a govt which wrote a constitution that discriminates against non-Muslim Iraqis and will ultimately demonise them as non humans as Sharia law is fully implemented. Which will be the same in Afghanistan.
The 3rd Bush doctrine stated – “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all of the world.”
He wasn’t all bad despite the MSM.
Vote:October 21st, 2009 at 9:40 pm
So DPF, can you explain why the SAS are in Afghanstania? I sure as hell do not get it.
Shouldn’t this have been a decision where some advice was taken, and some intelligence (both forms: intel and brainpower) deployed?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-three-fallacies-that-have-driven-the-war-in-afghanistan-1806191.html
Your chutzpah in posting on the topic of Afghanistania given your links to the current government is extraordinary
Vote:October 21st, 2009 at 10:58 pm
“and some intelligence”
apart from the shit crazy right and left most people consider Obama intelligent. So it’s not surprising our govt has opted for sanity and supported Obama.
Labour have gone for the shit crazy so you can vote for them.
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