Hamid Karzai
This excellent article in an Australian news source points out that Peter Galbraith, a senior UN official in Kabul, was sacked from his job after he pushed the UN to reveal the extent of the preparation for fraud before the first Presidential votes were cast in Aug 20. Galbraith wrote that before the vote, "Karzai was seen as ineffectual and corrupt".
This excellent article in an Australian news source points out that Peter Galbraith, a senior UN official in Kabul, was sacked from his job after he pushed the UN to reveal the extent of the preparation for fraud before the first Presidential votes were cast in Aug 20. Galbraith wrote that before the vote, "Karzai was seen as ineffectual and corrupt".
5 months before the voting, President Obama sent in an extra 21,000 troops to help secure the election. Just think about it. There were a couple of our troops who were killed or suffered horrible wounds while Karzai's campaign was busy undermining the election.
After it was obvious to the international community that the voting was a fraud, a new election was planned. But Dr Abdullah Abdullah, the main challenger to Karzai, pulled out of a second voting process and allowed Karzai steal the election.
The result is... NOTHING has changed. Karzai has continued to prop up his cronies. Karzai's vice presidents are Karim Khailil and Mohammad Qasim Fahim, "both former warlords from the ranks of Afghanistan's looting class."
"Democracy?" asked a Kabul cabbie during a local television phone-in. "That's an American euphemism for occupation. We don't have patriotic leaders either - so, the people's hands are tied behind their backs."
US fed up with troops dying to prop up Karzai
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