“It is finished. The assembly has voted for me,” Karzai told Reuters.
But many delegates streaming out of the German beer hall tent that is housing the Loya Jirga expressed anger that Karzai was anointed without a vote, with no consultation and no other candidates allowed to speak.
Well, this is no surprise. Ex-Unocal corporate stooge Hamid Karzai has been tapped by the US to rule Afghanistan since the US invaded the country. It would not be surprising if he had been picked before September 11th. There’s no reason to believe the US had any intention of letting someone else run things there despite all the lip service about letting the Afghan people manage their own affairs. And let’s be honest, the real reasons behind the American takeover of Aghanistan have to do with the unfortunate fact that out of that region they were the weakest government not on good terms with the US. It is really that simple. No Afghans bombed the World Trade Center. All of the bombers were Saudis, but then Saudi Arabia is one of our closest allies in the Mid East, so that’s no good. Presumably, the Taliban did provide assistance to bin Laden and other Islamic militants, but then so did Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia and none of them were subjected to military action. Iraq will be subject to military attack, but it actually had nothing to do with bin Laden. Osama actually opposes the secular style government of Ba’athist Iraq. Just remember nothing is black and white despite what you hear on TV and read in the newspaper. A good rule of thumb is to assume that when you hear Bush or anyone in the Whitehouse speak they’re FOS. Lies, damn lies.