Comments on: Ginning Up Another Election Scam Abroad - Afghanistan

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:07:02 +0000

It would be nice to see a little two-line bar graph, one depicting the amount of U.S. Dollars going toward the “Cash For Clunkers” program and the other showing all the money tossed down the ratholes of Afghanistan and Iraq in something we might call “Cash for a Self-Clunking” . It aint Democracy Building, Its Democracy Demolition.

By: Jim Bovard

Jim Bovard — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:00:47 +0000

Tom - Excellent info on BBC

Sounds like votes in AFghanistan are even more expensive than they are in West Virginia.

By: Jim Bovard

Jim Bovard — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:00:14 +0000

AlpoWolf -I guess the Obama administration doesn’t have any Karl Roves around to come up with finger painting ideas.

By: Tom Blanton

Tom Blanton — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:34:09 +0000

From BBC:

A tribal elder and former military commander in Baghlan province described how the system works.

As a key local leader he is able to persuade large numbers of people to vote for one candidate or another.

He says that he and other local leaders have been approached by teams from the two leading contenders in this election and offered money.

“If one candidate gives $10,000, then the other gives $20,000 and a third one offers even more. It has become such a lucrative and competitive business. I don’t know where they get their money from.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8207315.stm

Yeah, where could all that money possibly come from? What a mystery.

By: alpowolf

alpowolf — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:49:20 +0000

I hope that the Obamanistas at least have the originality to use something other than “purple fingers” as the symbol of their Bold New Democracy in Iraq, oops, I meant Afghanistan.

(Sorry about the confusion…for me it’s sort of like the ending of Animal Farm. I look from the pigs to the men to the pigs to the men…and can’t really tell them apart.)