Satire

[Joe R. Golowka]

> 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?

I think it was part of the satire.

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