Karzai defends Afghanistan election as honest
Incumbent Hamid Karzai defended last month's Afghan presidential election as honest on Wednesday, a day after returns showed him on course to win in a single round but a U.N-backed panel also ordered a partial recount over fraud.
The standoff has alarmed Western leaders who have risked their own political capital to send troops on an increasingly unpopular mission to defend a government led by a president who seems eager to accept a potentially dubious election victory.
Amid reports of returns that showed every single vote at a polling station for Karzai, including cases of more votes being cast than there were registered voters in that area, this guy has the gall to defend the results the day after the UN orders a partial recount.
H/t to Steve Hynd at Newshoggers who has more.
A politician who would accept a dubious/tainted/bogus victory?? Horrors!!! Say it ain't so, Joe!