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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 14:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andre Gunder Frank

Subject: on democracy

A Footnote on Democracy

Not a single NATO member country in 1999 submitted its participation in the NATO War Against Yugoslavia to its national parliament. The Canadian Prime Minister went so far as to declare publically that he could NOT afford to consult his parliament, because there would be some voices and votes against going to[an illegal] war, and that would give aid and confort to the enemy.
Now Europe's reputedly most NON democratic country, so much so that it is a supposed barrier to its entry to the EU dedicated to democratic princples, Turkey saw its parliament democratically vote AGAINST and thereby effectively PREVENT a US ground attack of Iraq through Turkey. Wolfowitz of Arabia just went there to tell them that they should now admit they had made a mistake. The Turkish government [against which the parliament had voted!] answered that it would do NO such thing. I guess NATO has to expand its invasion list also to another member country, Turkey. At least that is not out of area!
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