Landmark elections in Afghanistan and MSM lies

Despite the violence and intimidation, afghans once again are showing the world what they are made of:

``We are making history,'' President Hamid Karzai said as he cast his ballot. ``It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people. After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions.''

Some 12.4 million Afghans were registered to vote for the national legislature and provincial assemblies at more than 6,000 polling stations. They were guarded by some 100,000 Afghan police and soldiers and 30,000 foreign troops. ``Today is a magnificent day for Afghanistan,'' said Ali Safar, 62, standing in line to vote in Kabul. ``We want dignity, we want stability and peace. Thirty years of war and poverty is enough.''

In an effort to diminish Afghanistan democracy and promote their agendas, the Financial Times and Washington Post put words in the mouth of Emma Bonino, former European Union Commissioner and now Chief Observer of the EU Election Observation Mission to Afghanistan and misquote her for effect (ht Camillo):

EU observer attacks big flaws in Afghan poll: Afghanistan's elections on Sunday will fail to produce a sustainable democratic political culture.

Emma Bonino was one of those who condemned the U.S. intervention against the Taliban, which she said would "all but doom" millions of Afghans "to death."

Which is a lot of poppycock. The sad thing, of course, is not that they pursue their political objectives by interpreting facts from their point of view (which is absolutely legitimate), but that they are reduced to distort and manipulate the facts themselves in order to do so.

Afghanistan, Bonino, Elections, MSM