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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
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2) America says its "deeply disturbed" by the massacre of protesters (several hundred) in Uzbekistan. Those aren't the words that spring to mind for me - "bloody outrageous" would be more like it. A more appropriate response would be to stop sending this evil dictator millions upon millions of dollars every year and to insist upon democratic elections. Somehow the CIA acknowledges "systematic, widespread torture" yet describes this regime as "moderate" 
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Is it me or does this seem another case of, "any enemy of my enemy is my friend." They support Bush in the 'War' on Terror, and they turn Nelson's telescope towards the indiscretions of the government. I feel i have seen this attitude before with Rhee, Diem, Batitsta, régimes in Nicaragua and El Salvador etc, only now communism has been replaced by terrrorism as the evil.