[LINK] Guardian: Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war

[Eric Scheid]

On 1/4/03 3:51 PM, "Robin Whittle" <rw at firstpr.com.au> wrote:

> Somewhere in the continuum between the current Australian government and that
> of Saddam Hussein's, is where your limit is - since you seem to support
> following the edicts of the former, and since I assume you regard the latter
> as entirely illegitimate and in need of being destroyed (as most people do).
> 
> I guess the criteria is democracy -
 
IIRC, Saddam got where he was not via a military coup, but via democratic
elections. Once there he conducted a purge and thereafter everything went
down hill. His position is still a democratically elected one ... but like
you say...

> but what if there is a gerrymander, failure to properly count votes, a system
> with immense power of money and media (such as in the USA) or intimidation.

... a pattern repeated around the world time and time again.

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