THIS IS THE AFGHAN “DEMOCRACY” UK TROOPS ARE DYING FOR
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
A partial recount was ordered yesterday for Afghanistan’s discredited presidential elections after observers found “clear and convincing evidence of fraud” at a number of polling stations. The UN backed Independent Electoral Commission did not say how many polling stations would be involved in the recount, but noted that it had identified questionable results in Ghazni, Paktika and Kandahar provinces and said investigations were continuing. Recounts would be conducted at polling stations recording 100% turnout or votes for any presidential candidate of more than 95%, it said. Widespread allegations of ballot-box stuffing and suspicious tallies are threatening the legitimacy of the 20th August vote. More than that, I would suggest that if over 200 brave British soldiers have died for a disgusting electoral fiddle to put Karzai back in office, our politicians should be held to account and we should withdraw our lads out of Afghanistan right NOW.
US President Barack Obama (pictured above) told American schoolchildren yesterday to work hard in order to fulfil their responsibilities to themselves and their country, in a speech criticised in advance for being too political and prompting conservative calls for parents and schools to boycott the address. “I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it,” the President said. Despite Republican reservations Obama received some support from the former First Lady Laura Bush, the wife of Obama’s predecessor George W Bush, who said she supported his decision to address schoolchildren. She should know – she’s had to deal with an overgrown child all her married life.
That epitome of inexperienced banal incompetence, even by the inane standards of New Labour, UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband (pictured above), is set to describe the prospect of warmer world, with alligators basking off the coast of Sweden, a vast desert surrounding most of the Mediterranean Sea and a largely uninhabitable mainland Europe, when he heads up British attempts to persuade rich countries to put climate change at the top of their political and economic agendas. Arch climate-whinger Miliband, doubtless supporting his equally banal brother, Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband (nothing like New Labour for keeping it in the family) will address EU, French, Swedish and Danish foreign ministries in the next 48 hours.
He then travels to New York where he will meet foreign ministers from other rich countries next week to hammer out details of a major treaty on global warming ahead of UN talks in Thailand, which will conclude at a crucial summit in December in Copenhagen. A Foreign Office spokesman said using powerful climate change imagery to concentrate official minds was justifiable because the worldwide geopolitical implications of profound climate change were so enormous. Bollocks. If all these concerned politicians stopped flying about everywhere at our expense to these first class climate junkets, CO2 emissions would fall off dramatically. And in any case, as Foreign Secretary, shouldn’t David Miliband stop acting like some schoolgirl worrying about the dolphins and start concerning himself with foreign affairs ?
Another British cabinet minister visiting foreign countries to tell them how to govern while the UK itself is in a shambles. China should address human rights concerns if it wants the 20-year EU arms embargo to be lifted, UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson (pictured above) told young officials in Beijing yesterday. Mandelson also told an audience at the Central Party school – which trains middle and higher ranking Communist cadres – that promoting human rights such as freedom of expression would help China’s economy to continue growing in the long run. Interesting that – an obsessive concentration on human rights – especially for criminals and racist Islamic clerics – and freedom of expression have done nothing recently for the UK economy.
The arms embargo was imposed following the bloody military crackdown on supporters of pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in which hundreds, possibly thousands, died. Lord Mandelson is leading a delegation of British businesspeople to promote trade and co-operation in a range of areas, particularly low carbon economic development. His speech to the school focused on combating protectionism, promoting economic and financial reforms, and tackling climate change. He might have been better talking to the G20 – or the forthcoming Labour Party conference. And it’s striking that to our politicians, a Chinese massacre 20 years ago is unforgivable but a Libyan mass murderer who struck 20 years ago is an OK guy. Pity China doesn’t have oil to spare.
In the UK the New Labour government will “ot flinch” from making cuts in public spending in order to bring the soaring financial deficit under control, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (pictured above) insisted yesterday. The Chancellor paved the way for spending cuts, making it clear in a keynote speech that even his party’s top priorities such as the National Health Service (NHS) could be hit. He stressed though that the Government was determined to bring public debt under control after the recession and would never risk the UK’s “fiscal sustainability”. By the way, for our overseas readers, “after the recession” actually means “after the election”.
In the US Yale University has been accused of “intellectual cowardice” after it removed Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed from a forthcoming book about how they caused outrage (pictured above) across the Muslim world – even if most of the “outraged” probably hadn’t seen the cartoon and wouldn’t know where Denmark was on the map if you handed them an atlas. The university cited fears of violence if it published the controversial cartoons, like the uprisings that made headlines in 2005 after they were printed by a Danish newspaper. But alumni and professors accused the university of effectively saying: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their expected demands.” Can it be that America is getting more like Britain ? Maybe we’ll hear a bit less criticism about releasing terrorists then. Although the point should be appreciated that appeasement of Islamic fundamentalist blackmail on both sides of the Atlantic is wrong.
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It’s truly heartbreaking to see such fraud knowing what sacrifice coalition troops have given.
Our troops from the U.S. are dying for this fraud as well. The entire ordeal is serving no one and perhaps making the situation considerably worse. We Americans need to clean our own house before staging events in any country. My sincere hope is that we will leave. The consequences for all are dire. This fraud is an appalling sign of self-service and by no means will it help the Afghan people.