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Karzai Told to Fight Corruption; Abdullah Supporters Told to Keep It Civil

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Posted on Nov 4, 2009
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Abdullah Abdullah, who withdrew from Afghanistan’s presidential runoff Sunday, responds during a press conference Wednesday in Kabul.

In the aftermath of Afghanistan’s scuttled presidential runoff, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged President Hamid Karzai to go after the corruption within his ranks. Meanwhile, Karzai’s former challenger, Abdullah Abdullah,  advised his supporters to contain their discontent and avoid violence.  —KA

Al Jazeera English:

“We are extremely concerned about the level of corruption and the legitimacy of this government … It’s far too much endemic,” Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday.

Karzai “has got to take significant steps to eliminate corruption,” Mullen said.

“That means that you have to rid yourself of those who are corrupt, you have to actually arrest and prosecute them. You have to show those visible signs.”

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By Folktruther, November 4 at 9:05 pm #

Under the US, Nato and the CIA, 8 thousand tons of opium are being grown (when I last looked) and there were 200 heroin labs.  Supplying 93% of the world’s heroin.  But truthdig, a Prog American blog, reprints without comment the words of the Admiral (Afghanistan is a land locked country) for Karzai, (both he and his brother are CIA assets,) to clean up corruption.

The Conservatiave-Progressive truth consensus is so Orwellian you just assume that it can’t get any more surreal, but one would be wrong. Obama has already publically announced that the election followed Afghan law, and that was a good thing.  And this is the Prog alternative to the Conservatives.

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By gerard, November 4 at 7:31 pm #

Perfect Byzantine knot:  US Joint Chief of Staff “tells” Abdullah what to do, tells Karzai what to do.  Who imagines that either one is listening? That either one is going to appear to be “told” what to do by the U.S.? 
  (Of course the imperative headlines are only an unfortunate habit of headline-writers, to deceive the American people into believing that the U.S. is in control. Some kind of conciliation must have gone on behind the scenes, but we’ll never know.)
  Abdullah walks off, saying the whole process is corrupt; Karzai stays, saying he will clean it up even if everybody knows he can’t. Maybe doesn’t even want to.
  Obama sends in more “boots.” Killing continues—Nothing changes because they all speak different languages, and the only word they all understand is “win”—whatever that means to each faction.   
  Deal?  Or No Deal?  (Can’t tell war from politics from entertainment anymore!  War’s fought in a “theater.” Attacks are “staged.” People don’t really die—they just fall over and get up again later, changed into “collateral damage.”  Corruption is rife here in our own lobby-bobbled government, but we must get rid of it in Afghanistan?  Hold on a minute!

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