Rice expects Afghan election to be found legitimate

[struggle4progress]

JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
Sunday, October 10, 2004

The Bush administration is confident that Afghanistan's first direct presidential election will be deemed fair and valid despite protests from candidates that the balloting was marred by fraud, a top presidential aide said Sunday.

"This was an extraordinary day for the Afghan people, and this election is going to be judged legitimate," said President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. "I'm just certain of it."

All 15 challengers to U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai, strongly favored to win, announced Saturday they would boycott the election's outcome because the ink used to mark some voters' thumbs could be rubbed off too easily. They contended this allowed people to vote multiple times.

"Clearly, there were some technical difficulties with the ink system," Rice said on "Fox News Sunday." "Obviously, there are technical difficulties sometimes even in the mature democracies when it comes to elections. And people have the right to challenge." <snip>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/10/national1050EDT0459.DTL

Further evidence of what Bushistas consider a "fair" election ...

[TheFarseer]

1. Does anyone else just want to beat her senseless?

It's not possible to be a bigger tool. You could work your entire life at being a tool and not be half the tool that she is.

[gumby]

7. Rice is not a tool

She is a Big Time player, and her "husband" is W.

I repeat myself in typing that I can't say more in polite company.

[FloridaPat]

2. Are those people then coming to Florida to validate the election here?

[ogradda]

3. condi rice endorses the afghan election?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA :evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Condor Lizard is B*sh's toy.

We can be sure that if a bulge is ever observed on her back, it's the key he uses to wind her up, or maybe the loop attached to the string you pull to make her say stuff like "Afghanistan's election was valid" and "We were right to invade Iraq."

And don't you love this one: "Obviously, there are technical difficulties sometimes even in the mature democracies when it comes to elections." And which mature democracies might those be? Oh, goody, our election will be as valid as...Afghanistan's.

[fugue]

5. I'm just certain of it, too

Sure, the election is going to be judged legitimate.

That doesn't mean, however, that it was legitimate.

[tuvor]

6. What, condi's being "just certain" not good enough for you?

What more proof do you need, man???????

[bloom]

8. If Rice says it's Apples - it's probably Broccoli...eom

[struggle4progress]

12. "It's broccoli, dear"

"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
©The New Yorker

[NYC Liberal]

9. NYC Liberal finds Bush illegitimate

[daleo]

10. Has the BFEE gotten to the U.N.?

"In the end, Rice said, "there will be a mechanism to resolve these concerns within the context of the Afghan election law." She added: "the United Nations and the Afghan Electoral Commission have said that they do not believe that these technical difficulties fundamentally would have changed the nature of the election."

I am sure that the Afghan Electoral Commission is just a puppet commission. I would like to know more about the relevant U.N. authorities - who they are, what sort of oversight is in place, that sort of thing. The article is scant on details.

Should Karzai lose his position as mayor of Kabul in the vote count, Rice will be back on the tube telling us that the election is no good.

[truthisfreedom]

11. any time you see democracy being threatened, look for bushco to say

"it's okay. looks good to us."

they're going to call the diebold election theft a "little technical glitch" as well.