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Afghanistan's Presidential Election

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On August 20, 2009, presidential elections were held in Afghanistan. The two front runners, Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, have both declared victory in their run for the presidency. Results are expected in the beginning of September.

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  • cztheday
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      cztheday  

    • Yeah, I read a short article on Foreign Policy Magazine's web site, saying that votes were being sold for a rough average of about $8 each (usually in lots of 100). I couldn't tell for certin whether that was $8 American or $8 Afghani...

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Do you really think they count women's votes there? They just passed a law that a husband can starve his wife if she doesn't give him sex... and that's the key word. Not "love" but sex. Shows what they are all about. Anyway, do you (you in general terms) really think they care about them voting? So much for the "spreading democracy" lie told to us by this government. So in a way, it might be good to see an Iran scenario there... women should perhaps rise up and show their husbands what they will deny them for treating them like subhumans. Women are kept out of school, not able to own land, not able to have a say in their government, and then they are used as props in a US backed election while our bombs kill their children to show what? That things have "changed" there? What unadulterated US media driven BS.

    • 2 years ago
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  
    • JanforGore:

      An unsurprisingly uninsightful comment from JanforGore.

      All the bad shit that you just mentioned about women unfortunately IS democracy. That is what most people there think.

      And as bad as that is, the Taliban were worse in every conceivable way.

      But pretend like they weren't if that doesn't fit into your vision of the world holding hands.

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • JanforGore:

      Another uninformed slanted remark from Saladin who reacts to posts only when he thinks he can get in a zing on someone he doesn't like. FYI, the Taliban was paid off by this government. Colin Powell admitted it. Look it up. Paid off while this government looked the other way to their atrocities because oil and drugs took precedence. And to be sure, your comment about what is happening in Afghanistan regarding its women is certainly unsurprising.

    • 2 years ago
  • mediataughtme
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      mediataughtme  

    • the ink in the beginning is used to mark people who have already voted, to prevent manipulation.
      the taliban threatened to cut off every finger they see that has the ink on it.

    • 2 years ago
  • dontslowmedown89
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