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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (4602)	3/1/2004 4:37:46 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

No Bill I don't obsess over it. Heck fraudulent elections are as American as apple pie. They're quite common, and if you read fairly widely you'll find lots of evidence that the 2000 election was less than honest. But that doesn't have a lot to do with the fact that Haiti did elect their president and that does seem a bit more democratic than the coup route. And if you don't think that the US government was the prime mover in the downfall of Aristide then my guess is that you just don't do a lot of serious thinking. Look at it this way....democracy and free and fair elections are somewhat symbiotic, but coup just doesn't seem to fit in anywhere when democracy as a system is discussed. GW has made spreading democracy one of the foundations of his so called foreign policy...maybe he's gotten democracy mixed up with hypocrisy. He don't seem to use the language real good.<g>