Karzai Says All That Secret CIA Cash Went to Orphaned Baby Dolphins and Other Non-Corrupt Things

Matt Welch posted this morning a New York Times report that the CIA has been secretly giving bags of money – sometimes literal, actual bags full of cash – to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. In a statement, Karzai admits to getting the money, but insists it's not what it looks like. The BBC reports:

The president said the money was for projects such as helping the sick.

"It was used for different purposes: operational, assistance to injured people, rental costs and other goals. This was efficient assistance and we appreciate it," he said in a statement.

He added that the money had been delivered to Afghanistan's National Security Council, which is part of the president's office, during the last 10 years.

See, it's all legitimate!

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

I would appreciate some efficient assistance, and I promise not to use it for anti-American activities.

[Arnold Rimmer]

What a sweet, sweet man. If only there were more like him.

[juris imprudent]

There are, we just can't afford them.

[WomSom]

Sounds like a solid plan to me dude. Wow.

http://www.GottenAnon.tk

[Paul.]

Say that one more time, and you're banned.

[Sevo]

We can only hope.
Were you a victim of White Indian?

[WomSom]

Sounds like a solid plan to me dude. Wow.

http://www.GottenAnon.tk

[Bardas Phocas]

Now he's just fucking with us.

[GILMORE]

Sounds like a solid plan to me dude.

[DJF]

"It was used for different purposes: operational, assistance to injured people, rental costs and other goals (such as buying up expensive real estate in Dubai so he has a place to escape to when the time comes).

[Agammamon]

Well, *of coure* it was - this frees up money in the regular budget for poisoning schools that teach girls.

[Hugh Akston]

You glibertarians just can't stop moving the goalposts can you? First you didn't want to invade Afghanistan, and now you don't want to pay to maintain a corrupt, powerless puppet government there. Geez.

[Ken Shultz]

He probably spent it all on hookers and blow.

[Bardas Phocas]

Well. OK. That's better.
I was worried he was buying London or Dubai real estate or something equally ephemeral.

[Russell]

Unfortunately, Aghanistan's last baby dolphin was killed last year by dynamite fishermen in a water hazard at the Kabul Golf Club.

[db]

This is the least confusing thing about American foreign policy.

[Sevo]

OK, money is fungible. For some reason, that fact seems hard for the foreign-policy units of the US gov't to understand.

YOU STUPID SHITS! THAT MONEY WILL BE SPENT TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE OF WHATEVER THUG YOU HAND IT TO! IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? ARE YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD WHO WILLFULLY IGNORES INFORMATION?

[mad libertarian guy]

It seems an awfully inefficient use of cash for a land-locked nation to spend its money on orphaned baby dolphins.

[BakedPenguin]

STIMULUS. STIMULUS!

[DaveAnthony]

Awwww, come on, relax guy! Look over there!

[Don Mynack]

Considering we have been paying off the Taliban themselves for years, this is par for the course.

http://nation.time.com/2011/11.....aying-off/