At 4:14 PM -0500 1/27/05, OpinionJournal wrote: >U.N. on Democracy: Ho Hum! > >"The United Nations official charged with election assistance yesterday >threw a barb at American troops in Iraq,accusing them of conducting an >'overenthusiastic' campaign to promote this weekend's Iraqi election," >reports the New York Sun: > >*** QUOTE *** > >The chief of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division, Carina Perelli, was >asked in a press conference about reports that American troops helped >Iraqi officials distribute information on the electoral process to Iraqi >citizens, and encouraged them to participate in Sunday's vote. > >Ms. Perelli said that U.N. officials spent time "asking, begging military >commanders precisely not to do that," but the time has not been >well-spent. The Americans were "overenthusiastic in trying to help out >with these elections," she said. "We have basically been saying they >should try to minimize their participation because this is an Iraqi >process." > >*** END QUOTE *** > >Perelli later said she "misspoke," but she also offered this >less-than-stirring rallying cry: "Iraqis, she said,will have to 'decide by >themselves whether they consider that this election is important enough, >is valid enough, is legitimate enough in order to risk their lives to go >and vote.' " > >Sounds as though the U.N. election chief is as enthusiastic about >democracy as James Buchanan >http://www.presidential-leadership.com/jamesbuc-172.htm was about >abolishing slavery.
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