Peshawar: Printers in this city near the Afghan border say they have produced thousands of fake voter registration cards at the request of Afghan politicians for use in that country’s parliamentary elections on Saturday.
The cards, some shown to The Associated Press, add to evidence that fraud could undermine the elections and further destabilize the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai…
Three printers in a dimly lit section of Peshawar’s Storytellers’ Bazaar told the AP that Afghan election candidates had traveled to the walled heart of the ancient city about an hour from the border and provided them with samples of Afghan voter registration cards.
The printers said they had produced thousands of cards, along with plastic sheaths to laminate them, for roughly 23 cents apiece…
Does it ever matter who’s in the White House when it comes to political delusions like nation-building?
And again… all of it COULD have been prevented.
But America loves its pound of cure over the ounce of prevention.
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Time to bring our troops home.
Once Bush missed OBL, the Taliban and Al Qeda have had every reason to disrupt things. And it ain’t gunna stop anytime soon.
>> # 17 gquaglia said, on September 16th, 2010 at 9:25 am
>> The whole region is a shit hole. There people there are about 500 years behind the rest of the world. There is nothing we can do to change them.
I lived in that region for for a number of years and found it very interesting. Sort of like their food — fascinating but potentially lethal.
But I agree with your sentiment — we can’t change them. I’m not sure why we want to.
The best “solution” to that region is also the cheapest – just leave them alone.
It’s what they want! Our meddling was what made them hate us in the first place.
As far as that goes – America needs to start minding our own business and stop being the world’s policeman. Close our foreign bases. Reduce our navy fleets to one in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic. Reduce our nukes to a few really good ones.
Then we could spend the TRILLIONS in savings on paying off our debts and rebuilding America.
And, ironically, we’d probably be safer for it.
These people are hopeless amateurs when it comes to rigging elections. We have electronic balloting.
#23 Mr Allen : “…like their food — fascinating but potentially lethal.”
Agreed. But I do miss me a big plateful of mantou.
As for the US being World Cops? Isn’t that what we pay the UN for?
The American Way.
I totally to what jbenson2 said.
>Did you see how Mike did that there? Turning documented GOP election fraud on the Dems. Zing!!
How many states has ACORN been prosecuted for vote fraud, particularly voting registration fraud? Which President has a history with ACORN in the most recent election and the decades before that?