{"id":1348,"date":"2004-10-09T14:47:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-09T14:47:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T21:47:55","slug":"afghanistan-goes-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/09\/afghanistan-goes-to-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan goes to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone can figure out what&#8217;s going on in Afghanistan&#8217;s elections, let me know.  From what I can piece together, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200410\/s1216728.htm\" target=\"_blank\">all the candidates withdrew, claiming fraud,<\/a>  except Karzai.    The <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1535&#038;ncid=731&#038;e=7&#038;u=\/afp\/20041009\/wl_sthasia_afp\/afghanistan_vote_us\" target=\"_blank\">US bombed<\/a> some &#8220;suspected Taliban militants&#8221; killing 25 people in southern Afghanistan, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/featuresarticle\/2004\/10\/97cfdd9c-b94f-4b94-94be-191173c46aaf.html\" target=\"_blank\">voting hours were extended<\/a> because &#8220;thousands&#8221; of Afghans were still in line when voting was supposed to end.  No polling places exploded, and only a few were rocketed.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s safe to call this one for Karzai, since he&#8217;s the only candidate.  It should at least be amusing to see how many votes were cast, out of the 10+ million registered voters (out of a pool of 9 million eligible voters) in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone can figure out what&#8217;s going on in Afghanistan&#8217;s elections, let me know. From what I can piece together, all the candidates withdrew, claiming fraud, except Karzai. The US bombed some &#8220;suspected Taliban militants&#8221; killing 25 people in southern Afghanistan, and voting hours were extended because &#8220;thousands&#8221; of Afghans were still in line when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}