[4Canada]

Here's a report by Robert Fisk regarding the push for "democracy".<br /> <br /> Published on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer <br /> Democracy Isn't For Our Friends Only <br /> by Robert Fisk <br /> <br /> Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those Algerians in 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an Islamist government -- and then they so benevolently canceled the second round of elections? Thank goodness for that! <br /> True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit they included warlords and murderers. But the Iraqis last year elected the Dawa party in Baghdad, which was responsible -- let us not speak this in Washington, D.C. -- for most of the kidnappings of Westerners in Beirut in the '80s, the car bombing of the (late) emir and the United States and French embassies in Kuwait.<br /> <br /> Now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party. They were supposed to have given their support to the pro-Western, corrupt, absolutely pro-American Fatah, which had promised to "control" them, rather than to Hamas, which said they would represent them. And, bingo, they have chosen the wrong party again.<br /> <br /> Result: 76 of 132 seats. That just about does it. What are we to do with people who don't vote the way they should?<br /> <br /> In the 1930s, the British would lock up the Egyptians who turned against the government of King Farouk. Thus they began to set the structure of anti-democratic governance that was to follow. The French imprisoned the Lebanese government, which demanded the same. Then the French left Lebanon.<br /> <br /> But we have always expected the Arab governments to do what they were told.<br /> <br /> So today, we are expecting the Syrians to behave, the Iranians to kowtow to our nuclear desires (though they have done nothing illegal) and the North Koreans to surrender their weapons (though they actually do have them, and therefore cannot be attacked).<br /> <br /> <br /> http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0131-20.htm<br />

[Spock]

I do agree, frankly the West only use the excuse of democracy when it suits them (ie: when they want to invade a country and take over their assets). It doesn't matter to them if the government they want to overthrow is democratically elected, as long as this foreign government has a different ideology than the west, it can be overthrown. <br /> <br /> <br />

[badsector]

[QUOTE]I do agree, frankly the West only use the excuse of democracy when it suits them (ie: when they want to invade a country and take over their assets). It doesn't matter to them if the government they want to overthrow is democratically elected, as long as this foreign government has a different ideology than the west, it can be overthrown.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> <b>BINGO!</b> The US and its allies are notorious to support regimes with the worst human rights records when their interest (the financial interest of large corporations) requires it. Likewise, when they want to undermine a country, they start comlaining about its "human rights records". Sadly, it works. Most North American voters are pretty ignorant and get all their information about the rest of the World from mainstreame media, which is controlled by corporations. It's safe to say, that most voters are brainwashed by the greatest criminals mankind has ever known.<br /> <br /> Currently the US is propping up puppet regimes consisting of old time communist comrades in Eastern Europe. The Eastern European nationalists, who supported the West and were symptathetic with the US and NATO through 50 years of communism are betrayed and declared the new enemy. The reason: when the Cold War ended the US decided to colonize the ex Warsaw Pact countries and steal everything they had. The nationalists wouldn't do that since they were dreaming of democracy, free market economy and prosperity, but the old communist bosses had no issues with committing treason and selling out their countries. Until 1990 the comrades got their instructions from Moscow, after that they just started getting them from Washington. Nothing much changed, but US corporations made a killing there...<br /> <br /> The US made a mockery of "democratic values" and lost its credibility in most of the World by now. Come the next global change (when the US economy hits rock bottom due to globalism), they will have a hard time to retain their allies.