Canada Demands Probe Of Ukranian Election

Canada should demand a probe of the US elections while they are at it.

How about a probe of Canada's involvement in the ousting of the democratically-elected leader of Haiti!!

Took the though out my head ya did

my response would be they havent the jam for it

It is amazing to me that western nations can so readily call for overturning results and imposing sanctions. At present, the only credible criticism has come from OSCE. The were critical of the process not the results. The opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko seems to be basing his complaints on an exit poll of 30,000. Having lived in Eastern Europe, I would suggest that the answers pollsters get are often related more to who is asking as opposed to fact. Let's let the Ukrainian Supreme Court review the results and honour their findings.

Oh it's been amazing the last few few days watching Martinet bend over for Bush. Backing the US in complaining about Ukraines, when the US's elections are just as hosed. Fuming about massacres, just not the ones in Iraq. Now in whatsywhosisface with the francosomethings complaining about member who do nothing about the human-rights abuses of other members...he's going for Nobel Prize in Hypocrisy or something. <p>And this waiting for things to cool down so he can legalise Mercan military operations within our borders...whydya think Shrubdud's going all over pretending to make nice giving thankyous that are years and 100000 corpses too late? Down in APEC he told Bush "you wanna take over Canada, fine, but we can't pull it off without what you put on a good face for a change." I know this as sure as if I'd been there. <p>I knew Martinet wasn't much of a choice against Harpy, but fu@k fu@k fu@k...I'm sorry to rant but my frustration with this besodded country is beyond articulation...I'd get the h@ll out if I had anything like the money.

The Ukraine never got out from under the thumb of the Kremlin after the wall fell and now is their chance. There are so many reports of abuse and fraud, real reports - not the pretend allegations made up about the US election - that Canada should absolutely do everything in its power to help Ukrainians elect a government that is reprasentative of the people - not the Kremlim.

I agree. The only “spokesman” for the west that wants to overturn the results of this legitimate election is Colin Powell. His pathetic effort is clearly an reflexive echo of that Soviet Union-USA rivalry known as the Cold War. It is important for Canada to get behind Putin and Yanukovich on this and stop the meddling from Washington. What’s next: Marines in Kiev?

Actually, I think the US gettin its knickers in knots for three reasons only:<ul> <li>to distract from its own election chicanery (mismatch with exit polls? >100% turnoouts? Defective procedures? Exactly as in the US, but you don't see Paul Qvisling Jr. rejecting <em>those</em> results.) <li>to distract from the Fallujah fu@kup (how much Iraq news have you seen since this started?) <li>because the pro-US guy was defeated </ul>Although it's an amazingly convenient gift even I am not yet thinking the US set it up (<a href='//mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/927556.htm'>like some</a>); it's too much grassroots. Unless the whole massive protests thing is a media fiction, something out of <i>Brass Check</i>.

Journalists on Ukraine's state-owned channel - which had previously given unswerving support to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych - have joined the opposition, saying they have had enough of "telling the government's lies".

Journalists on another strongly pro-government TV station have also promised an end to the bias in their reporting. The turnaround in news coverage, after years of toeing the government line, is a big setback for Mr Yanukovych.

Journalists in Ukraine seem to have responded to the call by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko for them to reject government censorship.

A correspondent on the state channel, UT1, announced live on the evening bulletin that the entire news team was going to join the protests in Independence Square. She said their message to the protesters was: "We are not lying anymore".

View the BBC article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4044791.stm

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... just a friendly reminder to always take the internet less seriously than you take your gut!

<a href='//www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1360080,00.html'>Guardian</a> also suggests, with more "how", the Mercans bootstrapped the protests. ... Boy, maybe they've perfected some bloodless techniques. Which, in ways, is worse... <p>For merca-defending ANONs: how would you like it if foreigners were organising your affairs so? Seems to me you sputtered over mere foreign <em>observers</em> invited by your own government!

I agree that the USA is behind this disruption; it clearly sees the "disputed" election as another opportunity to insert itself into a place that it doesn't belong.

Yanukovich won fair and square. I will be disappointed if Martin doesn't take the opportunity that Bush's visit affords to remind the USA to keep its nose out of Ukrainian affairs. Our lining up with the Russians on this one will remind Bush once again that we'll oppose the USA at every turn.

Me, three.

Why don't we spend more time quibbling about the American elections? Let the Ukranians have their elections. I took it that the Quisling (gee, I love that word) press once again distracting a mentally defective public to get their short attention spans focused away from their own back yard where real fraudulant elections take place, no questions asked.