Monday, October 25, 2010
Karzai of the Afghans has nothing to hide.
Following the revelation that Iran had funneled Billions of pazuzahs to him in unmarked Euros, Karzai of the Afghans has responded by saying in essence, I will take money in any amount from anybody. That's what we Afghans do so well.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted to CNN on Monday that he has received cash payments from Iran after a New York Times report fingered his chief of staff as carrying bags of money back from trips to Iran.It is hard to see what Iran might want beyond good relations unless they were short of sand and dried shit.
Little noticed in his interview, however, is that he said that President George W. Bush knew Afghanistan was getting cash from their western neighbor.
"Even when we were at Camp David [Maryland] with President [George W.] Bush, this is nothing hidden," Karzai remarked.
Karzai likened the bags of cash that he received, which his staff doled out to "Afghan lawmakers, tribal elders and even Taliban commanders to secure their loyalty," to the billions of dollars in US aid his country receives.
"The cash payments are done by various friendly countries to help the president's office and to help dispense assistance in various ways to the employees around here, to people outside, and this is transparent and this is something that I have discussed," Karzai said. Iran, he added, "asked for good relations in return and for lots of other things in return."
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