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Parting Shot — 8.20.09

ORG XMIT: RMX120 Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kabul Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (Rafiq Maqbool / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: RMX120 Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kabul Thursday Aug. 20, 2009. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (Rafiq Maqbool / The Spokesman-Review)

Afghan women voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kabul Thursday. Afghans voted under the shadow of Taliban threats of violence Thursday to choose their next president for a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government nearly eight years after the U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Question: Would you risk being the target of violence to vote?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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