{"id":190858,"date":"2009-10-20T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/20\/afghanistan-will-hold-runoff\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:28:00","slug":"afghanistan-will-hold-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/20\/afghanistan-will-hold-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Will Hold Runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, now we know that once he is presented with overwhelming pressure, and the threat of a withdrawal of support, which would end with him being hung from a lamp post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSSP50491720091020\">Hamid Karzai will observes the cosmetic niceties of a democratic government<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Karzai welcomed the ruling by the government-appointed Independent Election Commission (IEC) after hours of closed-door meetings with western diplomats and mounting international pressure to accept the need for a second round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s welcoming this ruling in the same way that you or I would welcome a prostate exam&#8230;With a bowling ball.<\/p>\n<p>Bend over, this won&#8217;t hurt a bit&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, now we know that once he is presented with overwhelming pressure, and the threat of a withdrawal of support, which would end with him being hung from a lamp post, Hamid Karzai will observes the cosmetic niceties of a democratic government: Karzai welcomed the ruling by the government-appointed Independent Election Commission (IEC) after hours &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}