Karzai in second cabinet setback

[laststeamtrain]

Source: BBC

Karzai in second cabinet setback

The Afghan parliament has rejected 10 of 17 new cabinet nominees suggested by President Hamid Karzai.

The vote comes two weeks after MPs turned down most of Mr Karzai's first choices, dealing him a serious blow.

Two key posts were approved - Mr Karzai's former security adviser Zalmay Rasul as foreign minister and Habibullah Ghalib as justice minister.

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The BBC's Mark Dummett, in Kabul, says Mr Karzai had hoped to have his new cabinet in place before a crucial donor conference in London on 28 January, but that now appears impossible.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8462916.stm

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Karzai the Bushite is about as popular as Dick Cheney...

And about as crooked, IMO.

[bemildred]

2. Tsk. nt

[NJmaverick]

3. The Afghan parliament is certainly impressing me

Karzai may be useless but the parliament may be this government's saving grace. They seem to be acting in the best interest of the nation and its people.

[ShockediSay]

4. After a while he should get the hang of it.

Yessir. A good populist lynching of Karzai

might be just the wake up call his corrupt

cohorts desperately need, imho.

Could be given to Blackwater, I think.