Satire

[joanna bujes]

At 02:26 AM 06/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hamid Karzai, recently "elected" head of Afghanistan by a grand council, 
>or "loya jirga," in which a
>foreign body, controlled by the United States, selected delegates; 
>unelected warlords who had ravaged
>the country were permitted to control the meeting and to threaten 
>delegates who refused to vote their
>way; and the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, refused 
>to allow at least two other
>candidates to stand for election, added his support for Mr. Bush in his 
>hour of need. Said Karzai,
>"In Afghanistan, we have the loya jirga. In the United States, you have 
>your own process -- as we
>understand, it's traditional over there for corporations to play a large 
>part in electing officials
>and writing legislation. We're very interested in looking into that kind 
>of system ourselves."

OK. That was lovely. Did he really say that? Or is it part of the satire?

Joanna