Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out...
Posted on 11/26/2004 7:34:00 AM PST by Kozak
Sunday's stolen election in Ukraine is becoming a full-fledged crisis, with a nationwide protest strike planned in that country and most of the world objecting to the outcome, including a denunciation by Secretary of State Colin Powell. At stake is whether Ukraine will follow the autocratic Russian model or the Western liberal one. That is, whether it will become another Belarus -- or another Poland.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian government certified the vote, despite overwhelming evidence that fraud and intimidation tipped the outcome against the Western-leaning opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, in favor of the Kremlin-backed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The election was always going to be close, but the three-point lead reported by the election commission just doesn't square up. Mr. Yushchenko came into the election with an eight-percentage-point lead in the opinion polls and had a four- to 11-point lead in two separate, independent exit polls. As Americans know too well from the past two elections, opinion and exit polls can be inaccurate but usually fall within some limited margin of error.
Especially suspicious are the turnout figures. Districts in Mr. Yanukovych's eastern home region reported more than 100% turnout. International observers were barred from most polling stations in those areas, where a favorite trick was multiple-voting. Dozens of buses and trains transported people from district to district, letting them cast an absentee ballot several times, according to outside election observers. (excerpt ends)
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Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out...
Please spread the word.
Now we know where our democrats learned their tactics.
BTTT
IMO, Putin is pushing Russia back to the USSR. He's a longtime Soviet communist and, FWIW, I think he wants to re-create the USSR.
Bush may sort of like him but I think he is not to be trusted. Gorby was a better friend than Putin. Putin strikes me as "legacy-building*" dangerous.
* Legacy-building - as in the Clinton model.
Sounds just like Philadelphia!
Give it a little thought huh? You are comparing our mature 2oo year old republic with a country ruled by the last remnants of the old Soviet kleptocracy. All they did was change hats and flags in 1991. The people there have every reason to believe the election may in fact have been stolen.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide
everything."
Josef Stalin
ping.
I'm glad to see the WSJ making a bold statement & calling the election stolen.
Did you see Yanukovych's remarks today calling Yushchenko a "pesky cat"? Nothing like exhibiting statesman-like behavior.
Yanukovych will never have legitmacy.
I quoted this often during the last two presidential elections!
Not the USSR.
Something more like what would have happenned if the Whites had won the Russian Civil War.
And present day China isn't terribly different from what would have happenned if Chiang Kai-Shek had won.
Bump
Maybe not USSR but for sure nothing much better. Almost all former Soviet
Republics, without Baltic states and Georgia have dictators in power, they are all Russian puppets. That is the aim of their policy, now they want set Yanukovych…
They have the same roots for sure. Roosevelt's administration was loaded with Commies. Read Ann Coulter's book "Treason" which is a great history lesson.
Have it, have read it.
We in the choir continue our observations...
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