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Fraud in Afghanistan? You're High!
Based on over 2,000 complaints and growing evidence of fraud, Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission (located beside the Opium Poppy Ministry of Defense) has ordered a partial recount of the disputed August 20th presidential/puppet-to-be election. Bush's best buddy, Hamid Karzai, can't get re-elected without a coup of his own government, so his awesomely named challenger, Abdullah Abdullah may have a chance. One polling station reported (without naming the ballot box stuffer) nearly 100% of votes cast for a single candidate. Sounds like Florida in 2000, or Ohio in 2004, don't it? One other note: Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother to the current president of Afghanistan, is chairman of the provincial council in the Kandahar region, which is the most productive – and profitable – opium poppy producer in the world. Note #2: In August, British troops seized several tons of raw opium from a farm owned by Karzai, which Karzai quickly denied. Note #3: Two more U.S. troops were killed in a bombing in Kabul; we now have a record level 62,000 troops in Afghanistan, with the Pentagon set to ask for more, and Britain readying to pull out.
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