Rat Faced
12-08-2004, 05:18 PM
"WE hope that the upcoming election will be free, fair, open, well-supervised," US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Washington at the weekend.
Needless to say, he was referring to the situation in Ukraine rather than the homeland of his "honorary democrat" guest President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
General Musharraf is the man who led a coup against his country's elected government and refuses to countenance free elections but whose "democratic" credentials were redeemed by turning his back on the Pakistani military's Taliban proteges and backing the US invasion of Afghanistan.
And the outgoing apologist for the Bush administration's many crimes was certainly not talking about Ohio, where his Republican Party presided over similar electoral fraud to that masterminded by the president's brother in Florida in 2000.
Capitalist based Democracy was a lovely experiment, which appears to have failed just like Communism... :whistling
I'm now waiting to see what you call a banana republic as large as the USA, im sure there must be a special word for it :unsure:
If not, im sure one will be forthcoming....
Anyone read Heinlein when they were younger? :rolleyes:
Needless to say, he was referring to the situation in Ukraine rather than the homeland of his "honorary democrat" guest President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.
General Musharraf is the man who led a coup against his country's elected government and refuses to countenance free elections but whose "democratic" credentials were redeemed by turning his back on the Pakistani military's Taliban proteges and backing the US invasion of Afghanistan.
And the outgoing apologist for the Bush administration's many crimes was certainly not talking about Ohio, where his Republican Party presided over similar electoral fraud to that masterminded by the president's brother in Florida in 2000.
Capitalist based Democracy was a lovely experiment, which appears to have failed just like Communism... :whistling
I'm now waiting to see what you call a banana republic as large as the USA, im sure there must be a special word for it :unsure:
If not, im sure one will be forthcoming....
Anyone read Heinlein when they were younger? :rolleyes: