XPost: alt.politics.bush, alt.politics.usa.republican, soc.veterans   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   Sid9 wrote:   
   > U.S. Aides Hint Afghan Voting May Be Put Off   
   >   
   > By STEVEN R. WEISMAN   
   >   
   > Published: February 16, 2004   
   >   
   >   
   > WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 - The Bush administration has begun suggesting   
   > that Afghanistan's elections scheduled for June may have to be   
   > postponed because of security problems and the failure to register   
   > enough voters.   
   >   
   > Administration officials said in recent days that security conditions   
   > remained dangerous or at least uncertain in a third of the country,   
   > hampering registration so badly that only 8 percent of eligible Afghan   
   > voters have been enrolled. Among women, only 2 percent have   
   > registered.   
      
   The geniuses in the Bu$h administration failed to realize that the Afghans   
   and Iraqis are going to be extremely wary about registering their names on   
   any program sympathetic to the west. That includes voter registries. The   
   fear being that we leave and they are history.   
      
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