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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47481)	12/8/2004 12:39:27 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Re: I want to ask you straight if elections and democracy is so good where Kerry with a loss of 3.5 million popular votes is still a choice of 57 m intellectuals, why it is bad for Iraq and Afghanistan! How can you be so willfully blind? Democracy is simply a slogan. It has no real meaning. To say that America has "democracy", you have to deny that Bush and Kerry are both members of America's aristocracy, both are Skull & Bonesmen, both are globalists who put corporations ahead of people and both are frauds. You cannot have democracy when the candidates are frauds, Ike. That's the basic rule. *** Re: Once elections are held and free Iraqis like free Afghanis celebrate inauguration of their new elected leaders you instead of celebrating will still be intellectualizing. No, Ike, unlike you, I'll still be paying attention to reality. I'll still be noticing that Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld were in Kabul for the phony Karzai installation as President there. And that both of these world leaders were so afraid of the democracy in Kabul that they slunk out of Kabul before the sun set, lest some democrat use the time-honored democratic method of Afghanis and slit their throats. I will be paying attention and learning that the Kathy Yevtushenko, the wife of the Victor Yevtushenko was a staffer in Ronald Reagan's White House and will help her husband to sell out the Ukrainian people as soon as they steal the new runoff election on December 26. I notice, unlike you, that democracy is being crushed in the Ukraine with the same phony choices being presented to the public there as was the case in the U.S., in Afghanistan and soon in Iraq. The people decide nothing, if they cannot decide who the candidate will be, nor can the count the vote. A particularly egregious flaw in the American elections, where ultra-partisans control the secret means to count the votes. You do not have a democracy when the people see that "it does not matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes."