Afghan president: No corrupt officials in new govt

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government.

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President Barack Obama and other international leaders have urged Karzai to crack down on corruption after he won Afghanistan's fraud-marred election by default. Karzai was proclaimed the winner last week after his main challenger pulled out of a runoff, saying he did not expect a fair vote.

"Individuals who are involved in corruption will have no place in the government," Karzai said in an interview with the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service. The presidential press office released comments from the interview.

Karzai also said donor countries share some of the responsibility for rampant corruption because of a poorly structured system to manage projects. The U.N. and some donor countries have also cited the need for a more efficient system to guarantee the money serves the Afghan people.

"There is no accountability of their contracts and there is a serious corruption in the implementation of those projects. And the responsibility for this corruption is the international community," Karzai said. "I am hopeful that by joint cooperation we will be able to overcome all these challenges."



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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Just like here.

Perfect.

[hobbit709]

2. Want to buy a bridge?

I'll even throw in a couple of monuments.

[babylonsister]

3. And we should believe him because? And then he blames everyone

but himself.

[TexasObserver]

4. Recommend. The laddie doth protest too much.

[Dover]

So Karzai has a sense of humor....lol!...n/t

[Dover]

5. So Karzai has a sense of humor....lol!...n/t

[Catshrink]

6. Starting with his brother, right?

[NikolaC]

7. LOL

Was this another Onion story?

[Turbineguy]

8. Sounds like

he'll be able to lease out some office space.

Like all of it.

[joeycola]

9. Who believes you?!!

[ixion]

10. LOL @ Karzai

Yeah, right. Time to go back and smoke some more opium, Hamid.

[UpInArms]

11. will Karzai resign to make certain of the lack of corruption?

I didn't think so.

yet.another.lie

[Fearless]

12. Sounds like Ahmadinejad claiming there are no gays in his country.

Or Joe Lieberman claiming he's a Democrat.

All's I have to say is...

[Ikonoklast]

13. He so funny!

Man has a career in stand-up after he retires from politics.

[Stumbler]

14. It's not like we're in a position to complain.

Not only did we destabilize the nation by invading and occupying it, which opened the door for this "leader," but we've legalized bribery in the name of lobbyists and corporate donations.

[penndragon69]

15. So when will

Hamid Karzai resign from office?

He is as corrupt as they come, just look at the last election.

Who was counting the votes anyway, DIEBOLD ?

[optimator]

16. do they have corruption exemptions like our govt?

that way they can be corrupt and claim they aren't

[SandWalker1984]

17. Karzai, long time friend of Bush, Enron and Unocal

From Paul Craig Robert's story, The Evil Empire:

Guess who the consultant was who arranged with then Texas governor George W. Bush the agreements that would give to Enron the rights to Uzbekistan’s and Turkmenistan’s natural gas deposits and to Unocal to develop the trans-Afghanistan pipeline. It was Karzai, the US-imposed “president” of Afghanistan, who has no support in the country except for American bayonets.


Afghanistan isn't about 9/11, it's about natural gas and oil pipeles. Iraq is about oil. CIA controlled puppet leaders. Oil. Manipulation. Global corporations. Power. Greed. Money.

I am tired of the lies by our government. Let's call it as it really is.

[Plucketeer]

18. Who knew???

I guess it shouldn't be a surprize that there's a K street in Kabul! I'll bet there's even a budding health insurance lobby. I mean - if they've been coached by Bushco - there's gotta be a lobby cadre that pushes the representatives to ignore the populace!

[iandhr]

19. I can't quite...

... put my finger on it but there is a reason why I do not believe him