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Originally Posted by spence
Perhaps he was talking about the Afghan elections, you know, the ones with all that fraud and all?
-spence
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Obama Sends Campaign Team, but Still Loses Afghanistan Election
President Obama refused to recognize the winner of the Afghanistan election. He refuses to send soldiers to protect other American soldiers.
Barack Obama prefers the views of the United Nations, known for its corruption, than supporting the winner of an election, who has been a friend of the United States.
So, now Obama is holding up the sending of the needed, and requested military support. Why, he is not sure about the "credibility" of the election. What he really means is that his candidate lost and that our soldiers need to die for the politics of Obama.
Carville to Advise Karzai Challenger in Afghan Election Contest
By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg, 7/6/09
Democratic strategist James Carville, who ran Bill Clintons presidential bid in 1992, is helping another challenger: a U.S.-educated rival of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Carville, who has close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said his advisory role to former Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani shouldnt be interpreted as tacit backing by the U.S. for a change of leadership in Afghanistan.
In an interview before leaving for Kabul, Carville said he hadnt discussed his trip with Clinton, and was going for an exploratory visit as a private consultant.
I dont think anybody would veto me doing this, said Carville, 64, who said he has worked on campaigns in 18 countries. Ive worked in Israel when Bill Clinton was president. Its what I do.
Ghani, 60, who has a Ph.D in anthropology from Columbia University in New York and worked at the Washington-based World Bank, is one of 41 Karzai opponents competing in the Aug. 20 elections. Ghani, who became finance minister in 2002, said in an interview with the New York Times in January that he stepped down from that post in 2004 because Afghanistan had been taken over by drug traffickers.
Karzai, 51, came to power with U.S. backing following the ouster of the Taliban in 2001 and has amassed a power base largely through patronage. His government is under increasing criticism at home and abroad for inefficiency and corruption.
If no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will be held in the fall. The Obama administration has called for free and competitive elections, and hasnt officially backed any candidate. The administration has said the elections need to be seen as fair by the Afghan people, regardless of the outcome.
Still, many Afghans would interpret the involvement of an American political strategist with close ties to the Democratic establishment as a deliberate decision by the Obama administration to assist Ghani, said Kenneth Katzman, an Afghanistan specialist at the Congressional Research Service in Washington.
Obama should invite the "GOOD TALIBAN" over to the White House for a beer....he did say that he'd like to work something out with those folks...maybe he could also invite Amadinejad...he's overdue for that little get together...and maybe that communist with the cowboy hat that he's trying so hard to get reinserted in Honduras....