At 23:41 29-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:

>>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.
Yeah, democratic process really sucks when the result of the voting is that you are not going to get what you want, doesn't it?

Would you also complain about "one country having the decisive vote", if that one country were called "The United States of America"?


Jeroen "Voting is so much easier with Iraqi democracy" van Baardwijk

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