Thursday, August 27, 2009

It All Depends on What You Mean by 'Success'

Barack Obama, who uses the George W. Bush dictionary, told us that the election in Afghanistan was a success. We’ve seen a little of that success already. Now we’re getting more news of it.

Just 150 Afghan voters dared to go to the ballot box in the area of Helmand province where [four] British soldiers sacrificed their lives to secure a safe election day, it was revealed yesterday.

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However, the publicly stated aim of Panther’s Claw before it was launched on June 19 was to make the highly populated area between Lashkar Gah, Babaji and Gereshk safe for 80,000 Afghans to go to the polls without being intimidated by the Taleban.

  Times On Line


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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