[John D Harris]

1) Simularities between the 2000 USA election and the 2004 Ukrainian election,
both were elections with contested outcomes.
Differances: USA election was settled, there were protests but Zero talk of civil war, the American people dealt with the outcome, without resulting in violence, or open warfare. The jury is still out on the Ukraine.
2) There is no higher standard, and election is an election, baring evidence that there is fraud that caused the vote count to be wrong. No evidence of that in the 2000 USA presidental election. That election has been over for 4 years and not one shread of evidence or recount done by all the major news services, TV, Print, and Web have come up with any other conclusion than President Bush won Florida.
3)The US civil war was fought over State rights, the South fired the first shots starting the war, we get to be the ones that give the reason for starting the war. It was over States rights vs. Federal gov't. So there are no simularities with what is going on in Ukraine.
4) It's their country they can settle their own problems, as long as they are shouting and argueing they are not shooting.
5) No, as stated earlier there is zero evidence of the type of election fraud alleged in the Ukrainan election. Florida has what is called the sunshine laws. which means any citizen can go to the supervisor of elections and recount the votes. They have been recounted many times by news and reporters as well as political hacks from bothsides, in order to get something, and nothing has been found. President Bush Won Florida, in each and every single recount that was made.