“… these elections have been a disaster for Afghanistan, they’ve been a disaster for the international effort. If Karzai emerges as president at the end of this process, his credibility is going to be much reduced for the large part of the country. It clearly has undermined international support for the Afghan effort. When I’m home in Vermont, people are saying, ‘Well, what are we fighting for in Afghanistan?’ Before, you could answer, ‘Well, September 11th.’ Now people say we’re fighting to hold a corrupt government that has done this sort of thing in power. So, the elections-the issue of fraud is hugely important.”  – Peter Galbraith

Looks like Townshend’s own Peter Galbraith isn’t letting up on the UN-Afghan election scandal. Why should he? I think he got screwed.

He’s featured in the lead story on Huffington Post and he was also today’s top story on Democracy Now!

Looks like there’s much more to the story. I won’t be surprised if more comes out this week.