Defying Taliban, Afghans turn out for historic election

[Freewill]

God Bless George W. Bush, and see Obama, it isn't a failure.

Weary and Worried, Some Afghans Choose Not to Cast Ballot - NBC News

ABUL, Afghanistan - If the U.S. had a poster child for the kind of Afghanistan it has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives trying build, 21-year-old Manizha Raihimi would be it.

The law student who aims to defy tradition and eventually become a judge believes in democracy and is working to better her beloved Afghanistan. She worries about the fate of Afghan women and helps tutor orphaned girls in addition to her studies.

But her aspirations do not include casting a ballot in presidential elections on Saturday, the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

 

[Plasmaball]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

 

[Sallow]

God Bless George W. Bush, and see Obama, it isn't a failure.Weary and Worried, Some Afghans Choose Not to Cast Ballot - NBC News

ABUL, Afghanistan - If the U.S. had a poster child for the kind of Afghanistan it has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives trying build, 21-year-old Manizha Raihimi would be it.

The law student who aims to defy tradition and eventually become a judge believes in democracy and is working to better her beloved Afghanistan. She worries about the fate of Afghan women and helps tutor orphaned girls in addition to her studies.

But her aspirations do not include casting a ballot in presidential elections on Saturday, the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

Who's in charge of the Afghanistan war now?

 

[Sallow]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

This is still good news.

 

[Plasmaball]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

This is still good news.

meaningless waste of time.

 

[blackhawk]

I don't know how Afghanistan will turn out long term if it falls back into a Taliban controlled country that is the risk you take when leaving to soon I hope it doesn't we'll see over time.

 

[Freewill]

Must all good news be crapped on by some?

Afghans line up for blocks to vote for new leader

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan voters lined up for blocks at polling stations nationwide on Saturday, defying a threat of violence by the Taliban to cast ballots in what promises to be the nation's first democratic transfer of power.

Amid tight security, men in traditional tunics and loose trousers, and women clad in the all-encompassing burqas arrived at polling centers more than an hour before they opened in Kabul and elsewhere.

 

[Freewill]

God Bless George W. Bush, and see Obama, it isn't a failure.Weary and Worried, Some Afghans Choose Not to Cast Ballot - NBC News

ABUL, Afghanistan - If the U.S. had a poster child for the kind of Afghanistan it has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives trying build, 21-year-old Manizha Raihimi would be it.

The law student who aims to defy tradition and eventually become a judge believes in democracy and is working to better her beloved Afghanistan. She worries about the fate of Afghan women and helps tutor orphaned girls in addition to her studies.

But her aspirations do not include casting a ballot in presidential elections on Saturday, the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

Who's in charge of the Afghanistan war now?

I think we quit fighting 3 months ago.

 

[R.C. Christian]

God Bless George W. Bush, and see Obama, it isn't a failure.

Weary and Worried, Some Afghans Choose Not to Cast Ballot - NBC News

ABUL, Afghanistan - If the U.S. had a poster child for the kind of Afghanistan it has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives trying build, 21-year-old Manizha Raihimi would be it.

The law student who aims to defy tradition and eventually become a judge believes in democracy and is working to better her beloved Afghanistan. She worries about the fate of Afghan women and helps tutor orphaned girls in addition to her studies.

But her aspirations do not include casting a ballot in presidential elections on Saturday, the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

That's just naive.

 

[Mr. H.]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

No they don't. The bad guys are on the run. Obama said so himself.

 

[Plasmaball]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

No they don't. The bad guys are on the run. Obama said so himself.

Obama is wrong.
I would have rather seen us try to make a state for the kurds and not these turds.....

Get it....turds....pfft

 

[Freewill]

God Bless George W. Bush, and see Obama, it isn't a failure.

Weary and Worried, Some Afghans Choose Not to Cast Ballot - NBC News

ABUL, Afghanistan - If the U.S. had a poster child for the kind of Afghanistan it has spent billions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of lives trying build, 21-year-old Manizha Raihimi would be it.

The law student who aims to defy tradition and eventually become a judge believes in democracy and is working to better her beloved Afghanistan. She worries about the fate of Afghan women and helps tutor orphaned girls in addition to her studies.

But her aspirations do not include casting a ballot in presidential elections on Saturday, the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

That's just naive.

If she is too timid to even vote then I don't believe she has the gonads to do much else.

 

[Jughead]

I don't know how Afghanistan will turn out long term if it falls back into a Taliban controlled country that is the risk you take when leaving to soon I hope it doesn't we'll see over time.

God help us all if it does. It'll once again become a breeding ground for terrorists. They'll be coming out of the woodworks, and opening up terror camps throughout the country.

 

[Sallow]

outside of a few cities the place is owned by the Taliban again.

No they don't. The bad guys are on the run. Obama said so himself.

Obama is wrong.
I would have rather seen us try to make a state for the kurds and not these turds.....

Get it....turds....pfft

Like I pointed out..this is good news.

We need to leave.

And the Afghans need to figure it out.

 

[Plasmaball]

No they don't. The bad guys are on the run. Obama said so himself.

Obama is wrong.
I would have rather seen us try to make a state for the kurds and not these turds.....

Get it....turds....pfft

Like I pointed out..this is good news.

We need to leave.

And the Afghans need to figure it out.

its already figured out