Well it looks like the United Nations-backed Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission has finally finished its work and if they can now figure out how to subtract the fraudulent votes, it may just be that President Hamid Karzai will be forced into a runoff election. This will give him a second oppotunity to steal votes and to stuff ballot boxes, particularly in the remote areas of Afghanistan. That is, if people can get to polling places what with winter coming on and the resurgence of the Taliban and its strange bedfellow al Quaeda. People may well think twice about losing their heads literally over casting a ballot.
If we had some hanging chads around this would remind me of the first George W. Bush election. Fortunately or unfortunately that is not the case.
In the meantime, President Barack Obama is trying to reach some conclusion about what we are going to do in Afghanistan. I don't know how in good faith, he can support a government that has stolen an election. I would like to think the American people will rise up and we will still protests much like those we saw 40+ years ago. At least I would hope so.
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