Media says nothing about Bush fraud/fixing the pretend Afghan election-why

[papau]

Reports are coming in that Afghan elections looked like "Rigged One-Party Elections", yet our media ignores this. I wonder if Sunday talk will be in full Bush praise mode - or will there be a serious discussion of the problems - the problems beyond the lack of surity leading to many deaths.

Seems a given that most Afghan women didn't vote, and we know that 15 of the candidates who ran against Bush appointee Hamid Karzai withdrew from the race to protest what they believe was a rigged election.

Now GOP like tricks like multiple voter cards, then marking the cards as voted - for the Karzai voters - with disappearing ink, is a bit Florida like. And Stuffed - and lost - ballot boxes are expected to arrive - or not - in Kabul over the next week as the "votes are counted" - but again that is not much different that the GOP vote counting in Illinois for the last 50 years (I had an "in" with a downstate GOP election Judge in 1960, so this is first hand knowledge).

Come to think about it - the USMedia does not really report the GOP fraud in the US - they only report the GOP accusations of Fraud by Democratic Party members - usually it seems to cover up their own fraud (for example, Fox has gone into full GOP mode on their media review program as they bemone the fraud that the NAACP is trying to bring to this election).

When the downstate Illinois GOP fraud was limited to a report, 6 months after the election and only in the Waukegan News-Sun - that the spring floods had caused many of the ballot boxes that the GOP collected from Dem/minority areas to resurface on the shores of the rivers, I learned how right wing controlled the news media was. Indeed since then, in today's version of right wing control, I doubt a story about the ballot boxes being found in the spring would even make it into a local media paper. Those 1960 boxes never made National news in 1961 - and I do not expect our current media has better ethics!

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-us-afghanistan,0,3020948.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

Bush: Afghan Election a 'Marvelous Thing'

By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer

October 9, 2004, 7:03 PM EDT


ST. LOUIS -- President Bush said Saturday that the voting in Afghanistan was a remarkable achievement due in some part to his administration. "A marvelous thing is happening in Afghanistan," Bush told a breakfast fund-raiser for local Republican candidates. "Freedom is powerful. Think about a society in which young girls couldn't go to school, and their mothers were whipped in the public square, and today they're holding a presidential election."

In his remarks, Bush mentioned nothing of political chaos that marred the elections. Later, White House press secretary Scott McClellan played down the difficulties and proclaimed it "a great day for the people of Afghanistan."

Voting day passed relatively peacefully, but it ended in political turmoil as the 15 candidates opposing interim President Hamid Karzai threatened to boycott its result because of alleged widespread fraud. All 15 charged that many voters cast multiple ballots because supposedly indelible ink used to identify those who had voted was removed easily.

Officials of the independent United Nations-Afghan election body refused to stop the voting to avoid denying many Afghans the right to cast their first vote ever. <snip>

[StlMo]

1. Good question.

The Afghan election has no real credibility.
Thing again, neither does the official result of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election.