Robert Fisk: America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator

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Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it – they still are – and then the Iranians held fraudulent elections in June which put back the weird Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whom everyone outside Iran (and a lot inside) regard as a dictator. But now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and – yup, we love him dearly and accept his totally fraudulent election. And now we are still trying to persuade his opponent to join a national unity government, an administration led by the man whose vote-stuffing was the very reason that same leader of the opposition – the good pseudo-Pashtun Abdullah Abdullah – refused to run in a second round of elections. And Karzai got his fawning congrats from the Obama-Brown twins. So that's OK then. Wagons Ho. For Westmoreland, read McChrystal. Send in the brave 40,000 to join the rest of the US cavalry as it fights its way west – or rather south-west – to the Khe Sanh of Afghanistan in Year Eight of the War on Terror.
tags: dicator, karzai, afghan, corrupt, govt
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  1. #1    But it's part of a dreary pattern. US forces were participating in a civil war in Vietnam while claiming they were supporting democracy and the sovereignty of the country. In Lebanon in 1982, they claimed to be supporting the "democratically" elected President Amin Gemayel and took the Christian Maronite side in the civil war. And now, after Disneyworld elections, they are on the Karzai-government side against the Pashtun villagers of southern Afghanistan among whom the Taliban live. Where is the next My Lai? Journalists should avoid predictions. In this case I will not. Our Western mission in Afghanistan is going to end in utter disaster.
    written by Sparrows since 17 days 9 hours 14 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    Not only that, remember those DEA (drug agents) who were killed (along with several combat soldiers in a firefight) "so valiently pursuing their mission" in Afghanistan a week or two ago? Well, it turns out, that THE BROTHER of Bushies' & Obama's NUMBER ONE GUY in Afghanistan - that is, Kharzai's brother - is a BIG DRUG DEALER himself, Praise Jesus!
    Merely by virtue of his proximity to all that US money and power (via Kharzai), his brother is probably one of THE BIGGEST drug dealers in the region!

    I've told anyone who cares to listen, that the Mel Gibson movie "AIR AMERICA" is hardly "unrealistic" - Gibson's fellow US ("private" airl...

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