Rumsfeld Preaches Benefits of Democracy

[NVMojo]

:puke:

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) -

Juggling military disaster relief efforts in the U.S., Pakistan and Guatemala, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Central American leaders Wednesday that the next unknown crisis can only be resolved if democracies work together.

Speaking to military and security ministers, including some who are allies in Iraq and the war on terror, Rumsfeld spoke broadly of the need to defend democracy in order to open up future opportunities.

"It is clear the better the relationships and the better organized we are with respect to security matters, the better able we will be to deal with disasters, natural or manmade," said Rumsfeld. "And that is a good thing for our people."

more...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2005/oct/12/101209191.html

[htuttle]

1. Boy, that 'democracy' sounds great!

Can we have it here someday, too? Would we have to get cluster bombed first, or what?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Ronald Dumbsfeld, you are the man, who when the decision was

made to bomb the crap out of our former Reaganite Freedom Fighters... said... "But there aren't any good targets in Afghanistan, there are lots of good targets in Iraq".... not an exact quote but pretty damn close. Ronald, you are a loser.

[MisterP]

3. did our happy little Preußischer Ministerpräsident have protesters

dragged from the hall while saying how you couldn't protest under Saddam like he did a while back?

[Skittles]

4. well see Rumsfeld, many of us still REMEMBER DEMOCRACY

before YOU thieving bastards took root

[u4ic]

5. Rumsfeld talking about democracy,

Bush talking about humanity...wow, what sensitive, 'new age' guys there are in the WH...:puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Did he?

unfriging amazing... the gall of these folks any longer

[pinniped]

7. This punk thinks he's Cleisthenes reborn.

Rummy the Dummy, go f-yourself.

I guess countries that have not adopted these so-called democratic principles can play no part in the next unknown crisis- SOL. At every single opportunity these punks take turns throwing out the d-word, and every time it sounds pretty damm stupid.

--Defense Secretary Rummy the Dummy told Central American leaders Wednesday that the next unknown crisis can only be resolved if democracies work together.--

[NVMojo]

9. Condi is spewing the same lying drivel today ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1846402&mesg_id=1846402

[LatinoSocialist]

8. If it's good, it doesn't have to be sold

Memo to Rumsfailed, we are not all stupid.

People know a democracy truly springs fro honest, hard-working movements in nations, hoping to help their people. It did so in our country, it did so in every other people's movement in the world.

What you speak of is a foreign-imposed imperial POLYARCHY, which is nothing more than elite-rule, preferably in a neo-colonial way, which is periodically legitimated by elections (we in political science have that term for it). People don't want neocolonial polyarchy, they want a people's democracy.

Give it up. You're vision is dead.

[triguy46]

10. Isn't it time we started discussing Sainthood for Rummy? n/t