[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Cao_Ky]Nguyen Cao Ky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] In his book The Politics of Heroin in South East Asia, drug trade historian Alfred W. McCoy alleges that Ky was directly involved in the burgeoning opium and heroin trade operated in part by corrupt elements in the South Vietnamese administration, and that Ky was dismissed from his role in a CIA-sponsored Air America air lift program because he was using government aircraft to transport opium. After the defeat of South Vietnam by North Vietnam, on the last day of the fall of Saigon in 1975, Ky left Vietnam aboard the USS Blue Ridge and fled to the United States, and settled in California where he ran a liquor store.Quotes
* "Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
* "People ask me who my heroes are. I admire Hitler because he pulled his country together when it was in a terrible state in the early thirties. But the situation here [Vietnam] is so desperate now that one man would not be enough. We need four or five Hitlers in Vietnam." - July, 1965 interview with the Daily Mirror.
* "Always emphasizing the role of the Americans in Vietnam, they transformed the Vietnam war into a conflict between the United States and North Vietnam, relegating the people, the government and the armed forces of South Vietnam to a subordinate role. The government of South Vietnam thus became, in the eyes of the peoples of Vietnam and of the world, a puppet regime serving the interests of American imperialists."
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[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai]Hamid Karzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] Widespread corruption charges
By many estimates, corruption in Mr. Karzai's government is among the worst in the world. [63]Western critics accuse Mr. Karzai of weak leadership, cutting deals with warlords, tolerating drug smugglers and ignoring rampant corruption that has fed the insurgency. President Obama has said he regards Mr. Karzai as unreliable and ineffective. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said he presides over a "narco-state."[64]
[edit] See also2009 presidential election
Main article: Afghan presidential election, 2009
In the second presidential election, held on August 20, 2009, Karzai was announced to have received just over 50% of the votes. However the election was characterized by lack of security, low voter turnout and widespread ballot stuffing, intimidation, and other electoral fraud.[45]
Two months later, under heavy U.S. and ally pressure, Karzai accepted calls for a second round run-off vote, which was announced for November 7, 2009.[46][47] On November 2, 2009 election officials announced the cancellation of the run-off race and declared Karzai the winner due to the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's run-off opponent, from the process.[48] In his bid for re-election, Mr. Karzai surrounded himself with checkered figures who could bring him votes, warlords suspected of war crimes, corruption and trafficking in the country's lucrative poppy crop. None of them are more influential than Mr. Karzai's running mate, Marshal Fahim, a former defense minister who is accused of drug trafficking.
The presidential election on Aug. 20 was racked by egregious voting fraud and ballot stuffing, international and Afghan election observers have said, and threw the country into an electoral crisis even as the Taliban gained ground in the rugged countryside.[49]....here he have 2 weak governments, unable to stand on their own, corrupt to the core, both with their hands in the drug trade and u.s. largesse, with no support of the general population. a recipe for victory!!!!
By many estimates, corruption in Mr. Karzai's government is among the worst in the world. [63]Western critics accuse Mr. Karzai of weak leadership, cutting deals with warlords, tolerating drug smugglers and ignoring rampant corruption that has fed the insurgency. President Obama has said he regards Mr. Karzai as unreliable and ineffective. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said he presides over a "narco-state."[64]
[edit] See also2009 presidential election
Main article: Afghan presidential election, 2009
In the second presidential election, held on August 20, 2009, Karzai was announced to have received just over 50% of the votes. However the election was characterized by lack of security, low voter turnout and widespread ballot stuffing, intimidation, and other electoral fraud.[45]
Two months later, under heavy U.S. and ally pressure, Karzai accepted calls for a second round run-off vote, which was announced for November 7, 2009.[46][47] On November 2, 2009 election officials announced the cancellation of the run-off race and declared Karzai the winner due to the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai's run-off opponent, from the process.[48] In his bid for re-election, Mr. Karzai surrounded himself with checkered figures who could bring him votes, warlords suspected of war crimes, corruption and trafficking in the country's lucrative poppy crop. None of them are more influential than Mr. Karzai's running mate, Marshal Fahim, a former defense minister who is accused of drug trafficking.
The presidential election on Aug. 20 was racked by egregious voting fraud and ballot stuffing, international and Afghan election observers have said, and threw the country into an electoral crisis even as the Taliban gained ground in the rugged countryside.[49]....here he have 2 weak governments, unable to stand on their own, corrupt to the core, both with their hands in the drug trade and u.s. largesse, with no support of the general population. a recipe for victory!!!!
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mix for disaster, one stupid president from texas, a general who wants more troops, and a corrupt narco-president with one eye on the exit door.
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