Does anyone remember the US media reporting on the corrupt 2004 Afghan elections?

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Basically what happened in a nutshell was that they had to stop registering voters when they concluded the number of registered voters outnumbered the number of Afghans. I don't remember any US media talking about phony 2004 elections in Afghanistan while we were living under the Bush regime. Now the 2009 phony Afghan elections are big news. Why the discrepancy? Why did the media let Bush get away with this scam while making a big deal out of it now? Something isn't right.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3600742.stm

Afghan voting number puzzle

Last Updated: Friday, 27 August, 2004, 00:11 GMT 01:11 UK

Fears are growing that the numbers of people registered to vote in Afghanistan's presidential elections simply do not add up. snip

On 17 August, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan reported to the Security Council that the high rate of voter registration - more than 9.9m already enrolled - showed the political isolation of groups responsible for violence.

What he did not mention was that the number registered already exceeds the estimated total of eligible voters for the whole country.

Originally UN officials estimated there were 9.8m eligible adults, and as the percentage registered climbed ever higher, the Afghan government and US leaders loudly praised this as an achievement for democracy.

When the total reached 9.9m UN officials in Kabul hastily upped the estimated total of voters to 10.5 million, arguing that, with no accurate census, the original figure could be up to a million out - due to the effects of war, civil strife and mass migration.

But the figure is still increasing. UN Kabul spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva, said on 23 August that the total after registration was more than 10.35m, and data was expected to continue arriving for at least a couple of weeks.

Only a little arithmetic shows the figures are dubious.