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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (32783)	6/30/2004 3:41:26 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

This isn't your country....you weren't born here. You admitted that weeks ago. So if you don't like the way we run it - GET THE F**K out. Bush said that we would go after countries that helped terrorism.....Iraq and Saddam did just that. Paying a bounty to kill jews IS supporting terror.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (32783)	6/30/2004 6:28:41 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 81568

chinu. more on the Cuba thing from yesterday. The Cruel Irony of John Kerry's "Cruel Realism" June 19, 2004 tagorda.com David Brooks rightly slams the senator's foreign-policy outlook, which goes as far as to brand the Varela Project "counterproductive." But this position also has an ironic twist that's worth noting. Before raising questions about the Cuban pro-democracy movement, Kerry denounced the Bush administration's unilateralism, then insisted: I want to work with the international community to increase political and diplomatic pressure on the [Fidel] Castro regime to release all political prisoners, support civil society and begin a process of genuine political reform. Yet the Project itself represents the type of cause that attracts broad-based support. In 2002, its leader Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas received the top human-rights award from the European Union. Subsequently, Vaclav Havel, Arpad Goncz, and Lech Walesa argued: It is the responsibility of the democratic world to support representatives of the Cuban opposition, regardless of how long the Cuban Stalinists cling to power. The Cuban opposition must have the same international support as did the representatives of political dissent in Europe when it stood divided. Statements of condemnation for the government's repression, combined with specific diplomatic steps coming from Europe, Latin America and the United States, would be suitable means of exerting pressure on the regime in Cuba. Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter endorsed the Project. In a letter to supporters of the National Democratic Institute, Madeleine Albright asserted that "international support is essential to raising the profile of this important effort and in providing solidarity with the organizers and signers." Kerry may be right about how George W. Bush has isolated our allies. But little does he know that his very skepticism about democracy promotion could lead to its own kind of isolation.