Please..... do not lock this topic.
I'm hoping we can discuss:
1.The 2000 USA election and it's similarity/difference to the currect Ukrainian election.
2.The higher standard placed on American democracy if it is held as a barometre of international democracy, and if it's leaders are going to publicly call into question another nations democratic processes.
3.The similarity of the Ukrainian seceding threats and prospect of resultant civil war to the US civil war and southern states secession.
as well as:
4.Why it seems so few Americans seem concerned with the Ukrainian situation. Is it the US media?
and
5.Is President Bush being hypocritical or not, in commenting in the Ukrainian election.
This is a separate topic to the other thread about the Ukrainian situation, as it involves American politics, so rather than take that thread offtopic, I would appreciate it if we can have the discussion in this thread.
Is that ok? [img]smile.gif[/img]
Please note the language used here is not intended to be "baiting" but rather discussion provoking. Please note no country is being bashed here.
I do apologise for starting the previous thread about the T.O.S. I would have pm'd my querey if I knew who to PM. I was asking a question, and was not seeking to undermine nor call into question anyone in particular. I was hoping to have a discussion on the above topics, and was merely bewildered as to why that topic was seemingly forbidden.
So, hopefully with that cleared up, we can discuss those five points. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Here is the link to the Presidents comments that initiated my thoughts about election processess.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...ush.friday.ap/
Quote:
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush warned Friday that the world "is watching very closely" as Ukraine tries to sort through charges of vote fraud following a disputed presidential election in the former Soviet republic.
The United States and other Western nations contend that massive fraud marked the presidential runoff election in the Ukraine, and its highest court has ordered election officials not to publish the results until an appeal is heard next week.
Bush, speaking to reporters covering his vacation visit here, said he hopes a clear and credible winner would emerge.
"There's just a lot of allegations of vote fraud that placed the result of the election in doubt," he said as he entered a restaurant near his ranch.
"The international community is watching very carefully," the president said. "People are paying very close attention to this and, hopefully, it will be resolved in a way that brings credit and confidence to the Ukrainian government."
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Many thanks
Yorick [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 11-29-2004, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]