Ohhh I feel...woozy... dizzy... everything's spinning... going dark...

[LynnTheDem]

Celebrations as ex-president of Haiti heads for election victory

But even in a country where democracy has often been undermined - most recently in 2004 by the US-backed coup that ousted the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide - the election is only a start.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article344725.ece

mom cat's OP;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2100083&mesg_id=2100083

Ohhhh I feel weird...media telling truth...ohhhh...

*THUD*

[SmokingJacket]

1. Isn't that funny...

We all knew it was a coup, but we couldn't say so at the time. Now that it's a little bit behind us, eh, who cares?

Bizarre.

[Zensea]

2. Before you get too excited

remember it's British media

[LynnTheDem]

3. Yes I know it's UK...and they cheerleaded bush's bullshit and

Tony the bLiar's bullshit almost as well as the US "msm" did.

[Zensea]

4. True

:)

[LynnTheDem]

5. Not that most Americans will ever know the fact that BUSH undermined

DEMOCRACY by overthrowing a democratically elected president in 2004...same time he was -and still is- chanting how he's "spreading democracy".

BUT...the rest of the world DOES know. The rest of the world DOES see the utter hypocricy. And they despise us just that much more. And Americans will wonder "why do they hate us...?"

bush; putting the MOCK in Democracy since 2000.

[mzmolly]

6. "bush; putting the MOCK in Democracy since 2000"

:rofl: HA!

Though, perhaps we need a :ROFC: "rolling on floor crying" guy?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. OMG I've Never Seen That Line! I'm Gonna Use It Over and Over and Over!!

"bush: putting the MOCK in Democracy since 2000."

[MissWaverly]

12. how about putting the bananas in the Republic

Party since 00, I now see it, Bush was Y2K, we should have all hunkered down in
the bunker.

[Just Me]

9. I'll NEVER FORGET!!! NEVER!!!

:cry: I could NOT believe OUR GOVERNMENT literally went in and TOOK Aristide. It was horrifying to me.

But, at least, :cry: the US multi-national corporacrats backed by the BushCO/neoCON sponsored black ops didn't assassinate him.

If only the American people knew what these fuckers do in their name!!! If only,...if only they knew. But, they don't,...they are betrayed and exploited, too.

This is it,...this is reality: U.S. corporacrats exploitation. Look at it. Look at it.

[linazelle]

13. "the 'mock' in democracy"...Hehe. Very clever. I likeee. nt

[On the Road]

7. Just to be Absolutely Clear,

the Independent has never cheered on Bush's bullshit. Even among British newspapers, the Independent was always stridently left.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Not as biased as most.

Scott Ritter - who was at the heart of the inspections process for seven years - argued that the Iraqi regime had cooperated with his team in dismantling "90-95%" of its WMD by December 1998, leaving the country "fundamentally disarmed". Subsequent rearmament would have been impossible, Ritter insisted, and any retained chemical or biological material would long since have become "harmless sludge". But evidence of the success of the 1991-98 inspections - which fundamentally undermined government claims that war was required to enforce disarmament - was given the scantest coverage, even in the liberal press.

Of 12,447 Guardian and Observer articles mentioning Iraq in 2003 on the Guardian Unlimited website, Scott Ritter was mentioned in only 17, mostly in passing.

The Independent mentioned Ritter only eight times in 5,648 articles on Iraq in 2003.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/media/2004/1215balance.htm

The Independent and the Guardian, quite simply, are part of the establishment reporting on the establishment. ... What was unusual was, not the extent to which the Guardian, Independent and others acted as propaganda organs for power, but the extent to which events outside their control conspired to expose this role.

These papers may have been "the most sceptical", but they in fact expressed +minimal+ scepticism about government claims ahead of the war, as we have documented on numerous occasions.

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/04/040728_Bias_Balanced_Journalism.HTM

They had their share of pro-war and unmentioned/incorrect facts.

[upi402]

10. me too! I'm seeing dead relatives and stuff...

*flthdt*