U.S. calls for probe of Georgian elections

[UpInArms]

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters11-21-124513.asp?reg=EUROPE

excerpt:

He added: ''The United States calls on the government of Georgia to respect freedom of the media, peaceful expression and assembly, and on all parties to react to the results peacefully and in accordance with Georgia's constitution.

''We also urge the government of Georgia to conduct an independent and transparent investigation immediately, and to hold accountable those who violated the law.''

The United States has had a close relationship with Shevardnadze and sent U.S. forces to the country last year to train Georgians to fight suspected militant Islamists who had taken refuge in the rugged Pankisi Gorge region.

...more...

huh???

the pot calls the kettle black - or are they just working for the installation of Shevardnadze?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. RLOL

Ok, from the people who love free speech zones and
rigged elections?

Oh my

[cthrumatrix]

14. LOL...I thought they were talking about the US Georgia rigged vote

silly me...so much rigging ...it can get confusing

[Walt Starr]

2. BUAHAHAHAHAHAHA POT MEET KETTLE!!!!!

That's the funniest thing I ever read!!!!

[MuseRider]

3. Amazing

If it wasn't so fucking sad I would be laughing my ass off.

[ibegurpard]

4. Yeah

what else can you say?
:puke:

[A Texas Democrat]

5. USA the "Big Brother"

The administration loves the "Big Brother" policy of our country. Seems more like a little brother to me, since it's little brothers that are meddling into other people's business.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi A Texas Democrat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ninkasi]

6. You know, one of these days

even the spokesman responsible for putting out this drivel is going to burst into uncontrolable fits of laughter, the statements are so hypocritcal and ridiculous.

I'd be afraid to even read a statement like that out loud, I'd be too afraid of a big bolt of lightening striking me where I stood.

[weldon_berger]

7. When I first saw that headline, I thought it referred

to the election that ousted Max Cleland. I've been proposing UN election monitors for our 2004 elections since 2000.

[KeepItReal]

8. Damn skippy...we need that same focus on our own Georgia elections!

...and most other states in the USA...

[weldon_berger]

10. Any state using elctronic voting machines

with no paper trail (plus Florida no matter what system it uses). I wonder what one has to do to get the UN involved.

[drb]

9. I'd pay $50 cash to anybody in Georgia...

...who called a massive press conference and called upon the Bush administration to clean up the election process here!!!

[Nlighten1]

11. Didn't James Bakkker "help" with these elections?

I think I read somewhere that James Baker was involved in these elections.

[Mattforclark]

12. Here's a good article about this thing...

http://exile.ru/178/178010101.html

[Dirk39]

15. Excellent article, thanx...

even here in Germany it's pretty hard to find any decent information, you don't even get informed about the different parties there.

"When James Baker was sent out to Georgia this past July to lecture its President, Eduard Shevardnadze, about the need to ensure that the upcoming parliamentary elections were "free and fair," it must have raised a lot of eyebrows. Eyebrows of the "you’ve got to be shitting me" variety.

James Baker? This is the same guy who Bush Jr. hired in 2000 to steal the Florida vote, handing the U.S. presidency over to a tool who lost by half a million votes. The way Baker railroaded Bush into the presidency has done more damage to American democracy than anything since Nixon and Watergate. Sending him into corrupt Georgia to demand that they have "free and fair elections" is like sending Yegor Gaidar into Iraq in order to advise them on privatization and the transition to a market economy – which Bush also did."


Dirk

[0007]

16. Good article!

The Carlyle boys are first class.

[UpInArms]

17. related article: US, Russia slug it out over Georgia

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13315747

excerpt:

"Georgia is strategically important because that is where NATO, in the shape of Turkey, meets Russia," said Zeyno Baran, Director for International Security and Energy at the Nixon Centre in Washington and a specialist on Georgian affairs.

Another factor is oil. Georgia has none itself but it is on a transit route for the export of crude from the nearby Caspian Sea, where Western oil companies are hungrily developing new fields.

Control the export route for the oil, say analysts, and you control the oil itself. Some observers compare it to the so-called "Great Game" of the 19th century, when Britain, then the world's superpower, was jostling with Russia for control of routes to India.