Community | October 15, 2009 | 19 comments

Afghan Election Fraud

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7i_BqsQM7I

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Katie Couric speaks with former U.N. envoy Peter Galbraith, who was fired by a top official who now admits there is widespread election fraud in Afghanistan.
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  • N00B_Pwn3r12349
  • regjoeschmo
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      regjoeschmo  

    • one other thing to consider is afghanistan's biggest export aside from oil?? Herion.... Whitenoise makes a good point when he talks of the backdoor dealings.... there has been no shortage of this drug coming into America (which is one of the worlds largest importers of said drug) during our occupation... scandal and corruption that allows these farms to keep producing this drug is alive and well.....

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • Remember those smack filed body bags coming back from Vietnam ?

      Frankly, who can say with a straight face that things have changed ?

      Again , as long as the elephant in the room is not addressed the rest is but window dressing for the village idiot crowd...

      Some wars are just not meant to be won !

      The Golden Crescent Drug Triangle

      The history of the drug trade in Central Asia is intimately related to the CIA's covert operations. Prior to the Soviet-Afghan war, opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan was directed to small regional markets.

      There was no local production of heroin. In this regard, Alfred McCoy's study confirms that within two years of the onslaught of the CIA operation in Afghanistan, "the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world's top heroin producer, supplying 60 percent of U.S. demand. In Pakistan, the heroin-addict population went from near zero in 1979... to 1.2 million by 1985 -- a much steeper rise than in any other nation"

      CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax. Across the border in Pakistan, Afghan leaders and local syndicates under the protection of Pakistan Intelligence operated hundreds of heroin laboratories.

      During this decade of wide-open drug-dealing, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Islamabad failed to instigate major seizures or arrests ... U.S. officials had refused to investigate charges of heroin dealing by its Afghan allies `because U.S. narcotics policy in Afghanistan has been subordinated to the war against Soviet influence there.' In 1995, the former CIA director of the Afghan operation, Charles Cogan, admitted the CIA had indeed sacrificed the drug war to fight the Cold War. `Our main mission was to do as much damage as possible to the Soviets. We didn't really have the resources or the time to devote to an investigation of the drug trade,'... `I don't think that we need to apologize for this. Every situation has its fallout.... There was fallout in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan.'

      The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=91

      Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294

      1. Alfred McCoy, Drug fallout: the CIA's Forty Year Complicity in the Narcotics Trade. The Progressive; 1 August 1997.
      http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIAdrug_fallout.html

      "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

      “If you are afraid to speak out, you are not in America any more” - unknown

      Ask Garry Webb... oops, you can't !
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
  • afitzgerald
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      afitzgerald  

    • Covered over on the News Blog:
      "The new illegitimacy of Karzai's government has been one of the key factors in the Washington debates over what to do with Afghanistan. It'll be that much harder to win the peace if no one in the country respects its leader.

      So what's to be done with Karzai? Will there be a runoff election in which perhaps Abdullah Abdullah would beat out Karzai? What if there's not?"

    • 2 years ago
  • regjoeschmo
  • GoodGodGuy
  • donnyin3d
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      donnyin3d  

    • Did anyone really think a backwards country like Afghanistan would actually have a fair election? Maybe after they as a nation bravely step forward into the 19th century.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Ambassador Peter Galbraith is the son of famous economist John Kenneth Galbraith. He is notoriously closely linked to the CIA and a specialist in civil wars: how to stoke them and how to end them. According to the "dogfight theory", it is possible to provoke a war just about anywhere provided the population concerned has first been isolated, then divided into distinct cultural groups and, finally, that fear has been instilled between the groups. At that point, everyone will feel compelled to defend his own people by pre-emptively killing the others.

      Just before the invasion of Iraq, he was sent to the "no-fly zone" to prepare the ground for the remodelling of the "Big Middle East" project. This involved fueling a civil war among the communities and laying out the partition of Iraq into three distinct entities (Kurdish, Sunni and Shia).

      Peter Galbraith is also known for his close contacts as a CIA agent with Benazir Bhutto, whom he had befriended during their University years.

      The relations between Eide and Galbraith were considered to be courteous, Peter Galbraith having even met his future wife, the Norwegian anthropologist Tone Bringa, at a dinner party hosted by Kai Eide.

      Contradicting Galbraith’s explanations, M. Eide’s entourage has hinted that the latter could no longer tolerate his deputy’s disregard for his authority and his ostensible subordination to Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special representative to the region. The heart of the matter is that the Holbrooke-Galbraith pair were purportedly planning to exploit the election fraud in order to replace President Karzai with another, more efficient, puppet.

      PS : Two wrongs don't make it right ;)

      UN Deputy Special Representative in Afghanistan is relieved of his functions
      http://www.voltairenet.org/article162376.html

      About the elephant in the room...

      The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=91

      Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294

      The usual suspects & child chewing monster agenda...

      OBAMA & HILLARY'S KILLING FLOOR
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNLxSleuec

      GOP'S KILLING FLOOR
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4QKfDdJ3ns&feature=related

      “If you are afraid to speak out, you are not in America any more” - unknown

      "It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." - Henry Kissinger

      "Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people." - Richard Perle

      "As America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

      "War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies." - Ernest Becker

    • 2 years ago
  • Mariana_GS
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      Mariana_GS  
    • WhiteNoise:

      Coming from South America I know for a fact that no matter how far fetched it seems to an American citizen, those "crazy conspiracy theories" are usually right. At least here in your "backyard" they've been historically correct.

      However, I'd like to know where your sources are? Because those links at the bottom of your post, while interesting, don't verify what you said about Galbraith.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
    • WhiteNoise:

      http://www.voltairenet.org/article162376.html

      The last 2 links are but an expose of the continuous US/CIA melding in toppling the will of the people in favor of the age old ‘American interests & assets’ regardless of the party occupying the White House. An empire can’t afford to be distracted by the will of their own people either…business as usual must prevail ;)

      As for Galbraith’s association with the CIA, one has to realize that the diplomatic arm of the US government is a fancy way of saying… CIA. Nothing is done in the name of the USA around the world without the CIA knowing about it or instigating it.

      May I suggest John Perkin’s ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ to see how USA’s industries & foreign policies works so well for each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man

      "The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorists association. You don't look at people as human beings. They are nothing but pieces on the chessboard."
      - Verne Lyon, former CIA agent in revealing documentary Secrets of the CIA

      "I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me." : Ralph McGehee former CIA intelligence analyst

      “At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA.

      When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, ‘Oh, sure, all the time.”

      PS : Check out Carl Bernstein’s 1970s Rolling Stone article on the CIA’s stranglehold on the US media, which has gotten far worse since then:
      http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html

      "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell

    • 2 years ago
  • AlGores_Uncle
  • Mariana_GS
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      Mariana_GS  
    • WhiteNoise:

      I agree with AlGore's Uncle, but I don't think WhiteNoise quoted Kissinger because of his (or her) unawareness of Kissinger's general shittyness, but because that quote reflects the reality that is (and has always been) the US' government.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • samthesixth
  • vladbox
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      vladbox  

    • The US Gov. did not allow this. The US Gov. instituted this. From day one in Afghanistan, it was known that this war was going to be a disaster.
      White men sitting on a round table 12K from that area, can not possibly decide and determine the future of peoples that are totally different than us.

    • 2 years ago
  • stupidy
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      stupidy  

    • wow, cover ups, vote rigging, terrorists, Taliban, heroin and corruption. Why does one country cause us so many problems, and our governments to allow this?
      Well done to this guy for speaking out.

    • 2 years ago
  • Mariana_GS
  • FishaHouse777
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      FishaHouse777  

    • The obvious now becomes the truth, this should of been out in the open and known a long time ago.
      Now because of the misinformation and blatant lies portrayed by our government and afghanistans we have shed American blood and lives, and for what?

    • 2 years ago
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