Afghanistan elections

Karzai is now declared winner after the rerun is called off?! UK congratulating him etc etc after the UN admits that the initial elections suffered from massive fraud and vote rigging in his favour?! What kind of example of democracy is that setting?! I am lost for words, as I hope you can tell from my excessive punctuation.

are you surprised we didnt even get to vote our's in.

[Spiderman]

Modern "democracy" is a joke anyway. You get to vote for a bunch of liars who promise certain things just to get in. Once they are in they do what the hell they please and we can do nothing but vote for the other shower of sheets to replace them.

We vote out who we dont want, not vote in who we do want. How is that democratic???

[Swin]

This is the problem I have with our soldiers being out there, are their lives really worth giving for this corrupt bunch of cheats and liars?

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Modern "democracy" is a joke anyway. You get to vote for a bunch of liars who promise certain things just to get in. Once they are in they do what the hell they please and we can do nothing but vote for the other shower of sheets to replace them.

We vote out who we dont want, not vote in who we do want. How is that democratic???

+1, absolute bunch of muppets, and i mean any politician, they just have no clue about real life, and dont get me started on the money they've been claiming for allsorts

Originally Posted by Warthog

Karzai is now declared winner after the rerun is called off?! UK congratulating him etc etc after the UN admits that the initial elections suffered from massive fraud and vote rigging in his favour?! What kind of example of democracy is that setting?! I am lost for words, as I hope you can tell from my excessive punctuation.

You may as well have typed this post up in afghani,don't really understand a word of it,i know f,all about politics lol.

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Swin

This is the problem I have with our soldiers being out there, are their lives really worth giving for this corrupt bunch of cheats and liars?

Sadly the corrupt bunch were put in place to allow brit and US interests to thrive, so they need their troops in their to help maintain a phoney peace.

The bigge joke is how some people still believe that they are trying to get rid of the Taliban when in certain areas they have given the Taliban back full control because they say "its easier, they can maintain the status quo for us"

Then again, can you blame them for not being able to find any candidates to run Afghanistan?! I wouldn't want that job!

The problem is, the spotlight of the whole world was on these elections, it was supposed to justify the entire war there and prove that democracy was the best solution for the countries people. Now that is in tatters.

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by Spiderman

We vote out who we dont want, not vote in who we do want. How is that democratic???

That is the most insightful comment I've seen for a long, long time.

As to the other. The world is run as a business, ultimately coming down to the self interest of those in power.

Would the lawlessness of the Somali pirates be allowed to continue if Somalia had oil? Every rabid western politician would be calling for intervention.

Originally Posted by sv-robo

You may as well have typed this post up in afghani,don't really understand a word of it,i know f,all about politics lol.

Theoretical democracy = good
What is happening in Afghanistan = bad