I don't see how we can support such a corrupt regime:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/karzai-steals-...91102-htfz.html

So what are the options?

Get out?

Remove the current government and conduct new elections?

Just accept the situation and try to work within it?

I fear that President Obama will find it difficult to withdraw his support for Hamid Karzai. Two factors made this a corrupt election: 1,500 ghost polling centres and corrupt election commission staff. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) excluded enough phoney votes to reduce Karzai’s total to 49.67% to ensure a runoff with Abdullah Abdullah. If ECC did a full recount, Karzai’s total would have been substantially lower.

If the runoff election had removed the 1,500 ghost polling centres, Abdullah might well have won the election. However, Karzai refused to accept this and so Abdullah understandably withdrew from the contest. Therefore, allied soldiers will continue to die protecting a corrupt regime.

In an Australian policed sector, 43 people went into a polling station. At the end of the day, the votes were tallied... all 1500 of them.

We CANNOT support such corruption.