Surge of new election fraud complaints in Afghanistan

Source: Toronto Star

Surge of new election fraud complaints in Afghanistan

Sheer number of complaints raises worries Afghans won't accept vote as legitimate

Aug 30, 2009 01:45 PM
Heidi Vogt

Jason Straziuso
ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL – Major fraud complaints in the Afghan presidential election surged today to nearly 700, raising concern that the volume of cases that must be investigated will delay announcement of a winner and formation of a new government.

President Hamid Karzai is leading with 46.2 per cent of votes from the Aug. 20 ballot, followed by ex-Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah with 31.4 per cent, according to official figures from 35 per cent of the polling stations. Karzai must win over half the votes to avoid a runoff.

Final results cannot be certified until the election complaint commission finishes investigating all major fraud allegations. Officials had hoped to release the final tally by Sept. 17, but the huge number of complaints makes that unlikely.

The commission said Sunday it had received 691 "Category A" fraud allegations – more than double the 270 major complaints reported two days before.

Collectively, the complaints – if true – would cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election, dashing Obama administration hopes that the balloting would produce a credible government capable of confronting the Taliban threat, corruption and the flourishing narcotics trade.

A spokeswoman for the complaints commission, Nellika Little, said in all, 2,096 allegations of fraud and voter intimidation had been received. The commission is still evaluating those complaints and the number of those deemed major could rise, she said.

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:sarcasm:

Its the Mayor of Kabul of course

Its Charlie McKarzai (I) CIA

Bush installed puppet




Vetted by Cheney (What else do you need?)

This will not end well for America, particularly American troops being put in harm's way in support of this degenerate and corrupt regime.

WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE

Interesting opinion piece from April of this year. No one can say they weren't warned about Afghanistan, there are more warnings about this military fiasco today than there were about Vietnam when Johnson decided to escalate the war.

The bullshit in Vietnam got so deep that it took a Tet offensive by Charlie to burst the propaganda bubble the war hawks had so carefully built over the years.

Will Afghanistan be Obama's Vietnam?

Eamonn McCann examines the Obama administration's plans for an increased military presence in Afghanistan.

April 22, 2009

IF GEORGE Bush were proposing what Barack Obama proposed at the NATO summit, many would now be railing against him. But he's not George Bush. He's modern jazz to Bush's barn dance.

<snip>

OBAMA WAS born the year Kennedy became president. The neat coincidence might have persuaded a man as erudite as himself to read up on Vietnam. But apparently not. (Contrary to myth, it was Kennedy, not Johnson or Nixon, who took America into Vietnam.)

Vietnam rather than Iraq may provide the precedent and parallel. The initial declaration of an idealistic motive; the subsequent confidence that conditions can be created for early, honorable withdrawal; the projection of an enemy threatening the region, even the world; bafflement as the mission becomes mired in a cloying reality; semi-covert widening of the battlefield across national borders; surges of troops and escalation of weaponry to regain momentum toward victory; growing hostility among the local population; gathering anger and disillusionment at home...

The Carnegie Endowment spelled it out for him in January: "The only meaningful way to halt the insurgency's momentum is to start withdrawing troops"--which is what many Americans, naively perhaps, trusted would happen when they swarmed to give Obama their votes.

http://socialistworker.org/2009/04/22/afghanistan-and-obama

This clusterfuck with the Appointed, Election Fraud Mayor of Kabul (below) will go on for a few more years.



The "Present Occupant" of our white house will not be re-elected

Assholes!

U.S. Death Toll in Afghanistan Hits a Grim Record

Posted on Aug 28, 2009

With the death of a U.S. service member Friday, August now stands as the deadliest month ever for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Forty-five American troops have been killed so far this month, a disturbing sign that conditions in the nearly decade-long war are not getting any better.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090828_afghanistan_death_toll_hits_monthly_record/

What's the point of staying in Afghanistan, in support of a corrupt and degenerate government no less? The only thing we will get out of Afghanistan is more deaths and more life changing injuries for everyone. Let's get the hell out now!

Get it through your thick unrec skulls: this war is UN-WINNABLE!