Afghanistan's elections delayed - (Condi slips up)

[DoYouEverWonder]

17 March, 2005

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said parliamentary elections scheduled for May will now take place in September.

Speaking in Kabul after talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, President Karzai blamed the delay on "technical matters".

Ms Rice said in her opening statements that the poll would take place later in the year, apparently not aware that the date has yet to be made official.

She said it would show "the Afghan people's commitment to democracy".

When asked for clarification, Ms Rice said: "I hope I didn't break the story."

Mr Karzai then confirmed the elections would take place in September.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4356759.stm


Oops, Condi you should know better than to open your big mouth. The delay was supposed to be a surprise.

[truthisfreedom]

1. "I hope I didn't break the story." you broke it in two, condi, with your

long boot-clad dominatrix "just like a normal couple headed to Iraq to deliver plastic turkeys" legs.

[Dhalgren]

2. This incident just makes it more clear that the US is

running the show in Afghanistan. If Condi had wanted a way to put Karzai in his place, she couldn't have come up with a better one. "I tell you when you can have your little elections, Kar-Kar. Now just shut up and read from your script!" This is just typical ham-handed American administration of colonial underlings - everyone had better get used to it...

[Ilsa]

3. Thanks for posting this. I spent the last five minutes

going through today's LBN to see if it made it yet.

Dr. Rice is a dolt. Oops, "I hope I didn't break the story." I wonder if her new Minister of Propaganda (Hughes) can fix this for her.

[Roland99]

9. Oh, they'll be having a meeting of the "minds" soon.

wannabe-Mrs. Bush will bow down to the great Karen Hughes lest her head be lopped off.

[saskatoon]

11. wanabee

That hit the nail on the head!

[Gyre]

4. Good idea.

First they've got to see what happens after the Israel/US criminal gang attacks Iran in June.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. Besides, it's poppy-growing season.

[realFedUp]

6. election between warlords....

well, at least it's a step up from
dueling with sabers....

oy.

[Iceburg]

7. BBC: Karzai announces election delay (after condi outs new date)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4356759.stm
...
Ms Rice held a joint press conference with Mr Karzai, the leader Washington chose to run the country's transitional government after the US helped Afghan forces oust the Taleban in 2001.
...
Ms Rice accidentally revealed the poll delay when she referred to "parliamentary elections that will take place this fall", apparently not aware the new date had yet to be made official.

When asked for clarification, Ms Rice said: "I hope I didn't break the story."

Mr Karzai then confirmed the elections would take place in September

more

[gasperc]

8. duh er uh phhht, Will Pitts help me out here

unfucking believable, I have to be stuck in an alternate universe.

[diamond14]

10. Karzai announces election delay (condi announces Afgani election delay)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4356759.stm

Karzai announces election delay

Ms Rice, the US secretary of state, said the poll would show "the Afghan people's commitment to democracy". A bomb exploded in the southern city of Kandahar during her visit, killing five people and injuring another 32.

Breaking the story

Ms Rice accidentally revealed the poll delay when she referred to "parliamentary elections that will take place this fall", apparently not aware the new date had yet to be made official. When asked for clarification, Ms Rice said: "I hope I didn't break the story."

Mr Karzai then confirmed the elections would take place in September.
He said he had been informed of the decision by the head of Afghanistan's election commission.

"The preparations are going on and now they told us, the commission chairman, that the elections will be held in September," he said, according to the Associated Press news agency.

The delay, also blamed on the lack of an accurate census, had been rumoured for months. The much-postponed vote was originally scheduled for June 2004, alongside Afghanistan's first presidential election which eventually took place in October.


Free at last, free at last...thank God almighty, she's free at last...

An Afghan woman is watched by a US soldier as she looks through donated clothing she recieved during a humanitarian distribution scheme in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, 08 February 2005. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)



KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: An Afghan woman holds a child as she waits in a snowstorm for clothing to be given to her during a humanitarian distribution scheme in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, 08 February 2005. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)


in other news...(from http://crisispictures.org

18 Afghan refugees, most of them children have been reportedly died in the freezing cold over the last weeks as the war-shattered nation observes it coldest winter over the last years after a six year long severe drought.

In the last month and a half.there have been 211 confirmed deaths of children under the age of five due to cold-related diseases such as respiratory tract infections or whooping cough.