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| Afghanistan |
| Hamid Karzai blames foreign govts for corruption |
| 2012-12-23 |
[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... charged the countries that fund his government and military with enabling the widespread corruption that undermines his efforts to establish rule of law in the war-wracked country. Karzai said in a nationally televised speech Saturday that the Afghan government had been making strides in cleaning up corruption within its own ranks. He said there was still plenty of work to be done, but argued that internal graft was negligible compared with hundreds of millions of dollars spent by foreign governments in shady dealings. International donors have long argued that they have been trying to help Karzai's administration clean up the endemic corruption but have been stymied by his unwillingness to prosecute political allies. Karzai frequently levels attacks on his foreign allies, blaming them for Afghanistan's ills. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Karzai said in a nationally televised speech Saturday that the Afghan government had been making strides in cleaning up corruption within its own ranks. After all they've been through, the people of Afghanistan needed a good laugh, |
| Posted by: Matt 2012-12-23 12:22 |
| #2 "What is Projection?" /Jeopardy |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-12-23 11:49 |
| #1 Take away foreign government money and most corruption will go away too. Along with most of everything else. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-12-23 08:27 |