Karzai pulls out of Afghan debate

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Al Jazeera

Karzai pulls out of Afghan debate

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has pulled out of the country's first major televised presidential debate ahead of elections scheduled for August 20.

The debate between Karzai and two of his biggest challengers - Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister, and Ashraf Ghani, the former finance minister - was scheduled to take place on Thursday on the country's most popular television network.

After Karzai pulled out, an aide to Abdullah said the former foreign minister might not participate either.

Ghani, a former senior World Bank official, has repeatedly asked Karzai to debate with him.

"It is the Afghan public that will suffer another broken promise ... if the future plans of each candidate is not made clear standing side-by-side his or her rival," Ghani said on his website this week.

The Karzai team claimed that his policies were not ready and that Tolo TV, the network on which the debate was due to air, was biased against him, the London-based Guardian newspaper reported.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/200972352052661340.html

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Karzai shares some similarities with another American puppet, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem: he is reviled at home, and he is incredibly incompetent.

[saigon68]

1. He will, win no matter what

His thugs and the CIA count the votes

He is a little Mayor of 2 city Blocks in Kabul and a PUPPET

He is guarded by Hundreds of CONTRACTORS (read Black Water)



Yes Kabul's version of Charlie McKarzai

[IndianaGreen]

2. Obama is also keeping troops in Iraq beyond 2011. Another broken promise!

Iraq PM admits US troops may stay

The Iraqi prime minister has admitted US troops could stay in the country beyond 2011.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/2009723181757315574.html

[saigon68]

11. Its beginning to look like the Roman Empire

My Opinion of NEW BOSS same as OLD BOSS

[tomm2thumbs]

3. reminds me of an old saying that Fmr Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is noted to have said...

“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”

(or perhaps that scary ventriloquist dummy)

[pjt7]

4. I love that Karzai was a oil

lobbyist.

About .5% of the American Press ever mention the Afghanistan Pipeline, that has 5 Military bases running along it.

[The abyss]

9. ROFLOL

Thanks for that comment!

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Has the USA ever left a country that they invaded, bombed, or otherwise occupied?

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name me one . . .

[tomm2thumbs]

6. North Korea

not sure if the Shah of Iran is considered 'ours' but Iran if so

[Alamuti Lotus]

7. Hmm..

Never completely occupied northern Korea (was beaten back before getting the chance to, and they would've if they could've), and they didn't exactly "leave" Iran -- the spies and torture advisors were chased out.

[The abyss]

8. Indiana much thanks for this piece!

[Alamuti Lotus]

10. why not, he's rigged and bombed his way into the finals

the only real challenge was when imperialist lackey extraordinaire Zalmay Khalilzad considered throwing his hat in the ring (being a native Afghan, once upon a time before selling his soul to American War Machine Incorporated).

But this is an election rigging we can get behind. Bomb Iran, throw money at Karzai, Mubarak, Abdallah, Abdullah, and Abbas.