President Obama is concerned about how Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai will react to the United Nations-backed Electoral Complains Commission’s ruling which administration sources say will likely show that Karzai actually received less than 50% of the vote in Afghanistan’s election, once fraudulent ballots are removed from the final tally.
UD’s old friend Peter Galbraith is paying a high price for being right.
But there’s a great deal to be said for being right.
October 18th, 2009 at 11:54AM
He’s paying a high price for questionable activities in Iraq, i.e. promoting federalism for Iraq when it would profit him personally. The investigation into his activities in Iraq started before he criticized the U.N. in Afghanistan. The whole article (linked below) is worth a read, but this is the gist:
"While he was advising the Kurds on the principles of federalism and trying to persuade an American Democratic audience about the virtues of partition as an alternative to the Bush administration policies in Iraq, Galbraith supposedly held a 5 per cent stake in an oil field whose profit potential was directly governed by the constitutional and US policy decisions Galbraith was seeking to influence (his suggestions also included the idea of a permanent US airbase in Kurdistan)."
http://historiae.org/Galbraith.asp