US, NATO reach “consensus” to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan

[Hannah Bell]

The US and NATO countries involved in the occupation of Afghanistan have signaled their willingness to recognize the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai despite evidence of massive ballot-stuffing and fraud in the August 20 elections.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and NATO foreign ministers met with their Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta at a so-called “Friends of Afghanistan” meeting in New York last Friday. According to the Washington Post, the US and NATO foreign ministers “told President Hamid Karzai’s government that they expect him to remain in office for another five-year term.”

The New York Times, reporting on the same meeting, wrote that “the ministers agreed that Mr. Karzai would likely prevail, either by his current victory margin of more than 50 percent, or by winning a runoff against his main competitor, Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister.

“The ‘assumption’ of a Karzai victory,” the Times continued, “did not erase a deep uneasiness about Afghanistan’s governance among the participants, according to a senior administration official. If a runoff were required and not held before a brutal winter starts in November, the consequences of a delay would be ‘catastrophic,’ said this official…”

Thus, for the sake of political and military expediency the US and its NATO allies are prepared to rubber-stamp the rigged election...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/afgh-s29.shtml

[daedalus_dude]

1. So much for our moral high ground on criticizing the election in Iran.

[Selatius]

2. We just committed the same mistake the Soviets did if this is true.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on "humanitarian" reasons and occupied the country, but it was really to prop up a pro-Soviet government that was being attacked by the locals, likely supported by the US and other western powers at the time. Thus, the Soviets suffered their "Viet Nam War" trying to prop up a government that could not stand on its own two feet. Their will to stay was bled dry from constant guerrilla warfare and mounting bodies in the mountainous, inhospitable territory of Afghanistan.

[Mari333]

3. very bad PR indeed

sanctioning our puppet govt. not good.
get OUT!

[Mari333]

4. k

[Hannah Bell]

5. no one gives a fuck. but roman polanski should have his weiner chopped off, now *that* matters.

[Mari333]

6. k again

:)

[HamdenRice]

7. "no one gives a fuck..." about anything WSWS has to say

because it's impossible to sort out the blatant lies and spin from any actual facts.

[cali]

8. it truly is. it's the equivalent of the worldnutdaily.

[HamdenRice]

9. Btw, thanks for coming over to my cubicle

here at Rent-A-Shill to let me know that you know who was up to her daily reposting of articles from World SocioPathologicalLiarsWebSite.

We have to carry out our mission of continuing the Full On Truman Show Oppositional Surround that our corporate neocon fat cat masters have ordered in order to protect the capitalist system and The Man from the most dangerous and important woman in the world!

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

10. WSWS again?

:eyes: