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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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