For months, officials in the Obama Administration pressed Karzai to indict, or at least get rid of, some of the corrupt people around him.
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And the generals are believed to consider him a corrupt and incompetent fool who should be banished.
The real twist, however, was that Tracy, the flawed husband, would still make a great President, especially in comparison with the corrupt political professionals around him.
Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC Islamabad correspondent at the time, recalls that when Mr Sharif was removed from power, many Pakistanis expressed great relief, describing him as corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry.
The exclusivity of Chavez's access to oil has also allowed him to subvert corrupt politicians in the region, as well as to offer a sanctions-busting 20, 000 barrel a week deal to Iran.
The Peruvian mainstream media as well as several leftist NGO's and many self-proclaimed "intellectuals, " have gone to great lengths to portray him as a corrupt criminal, a traitor, a fugitive and a murderer.
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He claims that 90% of the (crumbling and corrupt) police force is behind him.
His critics groan at this, accusing him of running a corrupt one-man state.
No politician is too lowly, too unremarkable or too corrupt to inspire someone to pay homage to him or her with body art.
On the first count, Mr Volcker has found no evidence at all that the secretary-general himself did anything corrupt, even though several people close to him plainly did.
His lawyer, Tim Herman, has described the Usada report as a "one-sided hatchet job" and the cyclist himself has accused the agency of offering "corrupt inducements" to other riders to speak out against him.
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They put him in charge of a unit responsible for investigating corrupt activities carried out by PA officials.
That is tribute partly to Mr Chavez's popular appeal, especially among the poor, who see him as delivering them from economic decline and the often corrupt, self-serving traditional parties.
Orduna, who replaced half of the 1, 600-person police force with new recruits in a bid to rid it of corrupt members, tendered his resignation to protect the men who serve him, Reyes told reporters.
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