U.N. Officials Say American Aide Plotted to Replace Karzai

As fraud surfaced in the Afghan presidential election, the No. 2 United Nations official in the country, the American Peter W. Galbraith, proposed enlisting the White House in a plan to replace Hamid Karzai. Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via NewsRack (Afghanistan)

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James Canning
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by James Canning - Dec. 20, 2009

The reporters should have asked why the large-scale "vote fraud" that took place in 2004, when Hamid Karzai was first elected, was not a problem, if the same thing in the 2009 election was a problem.

I listened to Galbraith pitch his plan for the dismemberment of Iraq a number of years ago, and I thought he had a lot of personal appeal even if the idea was bonkers.

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