At 10:07 PM 10/29/2002 -0500 Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
>John D. Giorgis wrote:
>> SWING VOTES:
>> Ireland, Mexico, Guinea, Cameroon
>>
>>Yes folks, the fate of the world may well rest in the hands of
>>Guinea or Cameroon, should Ireland or Mexico choose to abstain from
>>voting.
>
>This kind of statement is an example of why some nations think the US is
arrogant. God forbid a pathetic backwater like Cameroon have any say in
what happens in the world. It's not like they live in it or anything.
>
There's difference between giving the Cameroonians a *say*, and giving the
despot of a tiny, one-party, banana republic the decisive vote on the
morality of intervening in Iraq.
I'd support the former, but right now, we're stuck with the latter - and
find it fairly amusing.
JDG
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