Tuesday, February 23, 2010
And in a lighter vein
Our BFF over there, Karzai of the Afghans, has executed a brilliant maneuver to insure that he doesn't have to worry about no pesky elections in the future.
Using a loophole in the Afghan Constitution, the president unilaterally rewrote the election law and put it into effect by an emergency presidential decree on Feb. 13.Pretty slick, huh? So if this guy Karzai of the Afghans is so sharp, why are we wasting our time, troops and money fighting for him? He can take care of himself.
Under the new version, the five members of the Election Complaint Commission, created to oversee voting irregularities, will now be chosen by him. Previously, three of the seats on the commission were held by foreigners appointed by the United Nations and the other two members were Afghans.
The Election Complaint Commission was the oversight body that documented widespread irregularities in the presidential elections held last August, ruling that at least 1 million votes cast for President Hamid Karzai were suspect, forcing him into a run-off.
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