Congratulations Afghanistan

from PolMach Forums
I would like to take a moment to congratulate Afghanistan for holding their first elections. They can now be called a Democratic country. Bravo to you Afghanistan. No major acts of violets was even committed.

Lets give them three cheers people” HOORAY, HOORAY, HOORAY

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
Awesome, did you also know there was some Bundeswehr soldiers in Afghanistan as well? Gerhard Schroeder is going to Kabul, while there he is going to congratulate the soldiers on their mission. I think it was some training mission or something, have to find some news articles on the web about it, since I saw it on the telly last night (Newsworld International - German Journal).

Hmm, I thought we pissed off the Germans and they were not going to help little young U.S., hmm?

Three cheers for Afghanistan: Hip Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip Hip Hooray!

I went from to to

Look at these Ballots, now why couldn't we have ballots like these so the whole voter stupidity in the ballot box argument could hold no water!


- GX
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
Actually GX

What is not reported here much is that Germany has a large number of troops there.

I still have a few German friends, from when I lived in Germany, that are bewildered that the US news media does not point this out. My friends feel the main reason for them not sending troops now, is because they are helping us more in Afghanistan. Why should they remove troops from a place all Germans agree with (and free US troops elsewhere) and send them to Iraq.

Even though they are not sending combat troops to Iraq, they are sending trainers for the Iraqi Army. I just wish the US media would get off their case as much, because I feel they are still our allies. It's the French that refuse to do anything anywhere to help fight terrorism.

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top
It's the French that refuse to do anything anywhere to help fight terrorism.


Well they are French, right now the current government will not get involved with anything that is not, well, French.

Russia has it's own internal problems right now so they are out of the picture.

China will not help until everyone in the world makes Taiwan become apart of China again (though even then they still won't give up Tibet), so China is out with that mess. That mess and the mess with North Korea their ally.

Who else is out there that is NOT helping the U.S. effort anywhere in the World?

I give credit to the Germans, they do a lot of training since they basically have the same type of military like Japan's SDF (which is sending trainers to places as well). Though the Germans have an awesome Anti-Terrorism Squad GSG-9 (?), hmm maybe Rainbow Six IS a good idea for a Multi-national Anti-Terrorism group.

- GX
Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
I hate to burst any bubbles here but the Afgani election was a complete fraud and all 16 candidates agree that the election results aren't legit, some Afghani's voted 2 or 3 times and the voter turn out was 10,000,000 which was way higher than they expected

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6212330/site/newsweek/
Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top
I hate to burst any bubbles here but the Afgani election was a complete fraud and all 16 candidates agree that the election results aren't legit, some Afghani's voted 2 or 3 times and the voter turn out was 10,000,000 which was way higher than they expected


I hate to burst your bubble, but it was 15, and only one stepped out to say something right about it, Karzai.

In the end, faulty ink - not Taliban bombs and bullets - threatened three years of painstaking progress toward democracy. The opposition candidates claimed the ink used to mark people's thumbs rubbed off too easily, allowing for mass deception.

Electoral officials rejected opposition demands that voting be stopped at midday, saying it would rob millions of people of their first chance to directly decide their leader, and the joint U.N.-Afghan panel overseeing the election would rule later on the vote's legitimacy.

But the controversy nonetheless cast a pall over what had been a joyous day in Afghanistan. Millions of ethnically diverse Afghan voters crammed polling stations for an election aimed at bringing peace and prosperity to a country nearly ruined by more than two decades of war. Men and women voted at separate booths in keeping with this nation's conservative Islamic leanings.

Karzai - who is widely favored to win - said the fate of the balloting was with electoral panel, but he added that, in his view, "the election was free and fair ... it is very legitimate."

"Who is more important, these 15 candidates , or the millions of people who turned out today to vote ?" Karzai said. "Both myself and all these 15 candidates should respect our people - because in the dust and snow and rain, they waited for hours and hours to vote."


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041009/D85K2RL00.html

Unless AP is biased?

Look here I think I heard a bubble pop!

- GX
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
"POP"!!!!!