Karzai needed convincing twice on new election (Kerry's role detailed)

[MessiahRp]

WASHINGTON - Afghan President Hamid Karzai needed high-level American arm-twisting over several tense days — and meals that included "gallons of tea" and endless platters of lamb — before he finally agreed Tuesday to a run-off vote in the country's fraud-plagued presidential election.

A senior American official briefed on the meetings by Sen. John Kerry gave The Associated Press details of the negotiations with Karzai, talks that lasted late into several nights and went on for hours each day.

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President Barack Obama singled out the work of Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, who, the president said, "have been working tirelessly throughout this process."

Kerry "was in the region traveling and ended up working extensively with Ambassador Eikenberry and was extraordinarily constructive and very helpful. So I think he deserves great congratulations," Obama said during a brief meeting with reporters after an Oval Office visit with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

MUCH MORE AT LINK:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33407083/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[Submariner]

1. I expect the Swift Boat Liars for Bush will come to Karzai's defense

on Fox noise any time now.

[MessiahRp]

2. What I think is amazing is Kerry may not get any credit for any of this outside of this article.

And this runoff may have a lot to do with how we approach ending this war. Especially if there's the appearance of a fair election that Afghanistan's people can get behind.

Kerry never gets enough credit for his mastery of foreign policy. He's been one of the most important people in the world on foreign policy for the last half century at least and he deserves to be treated as such and not as the "flip flopper" or "weak candidate" that the media has permanently labeled him with.

Rp

[blm]

3. You got that exactly right. Corpmedia NEEDS to target Kerry as irrelevant - his work all these years

uncovering the corruption of so many powerful global players also exposed the newsmedia's inattention to these serious matters and the consequences (9-11), as well as revealing media's own role in assisting the coverups and diversions to protect their fascist masters.

[NNN0LHI]

4. UNOCAL Karzai needs to be thrown out of Kabul western style

He is Bush's boy. Not ours.

Don