jimbob

We Europeans generally don't give a flying toss how you guys run your own country (except maybe that you ought not to pollute so much). It's just when your President launches an illegal war and uses the power and influence built up by previous generations in your great country to draw us into it as well that we get a little upset. He's set a very dangerous precedent in launching a preemptive invasion, which if adopted worldwide could see, for example, North Korea launch a nuclear strike on the US (Bush has already labelled them evil after all, and the US has a history of invading countries both overtly and covertly) or an attack by Iran/the whole Arab world on Israel. That is how outrageous his attack on Iraq was and that's why he's considered a danger to world peace. And we don't believe he went into oil-rich Iraq to free the people - they're suffering in many other countries where he won't help out. Take Uzbekistan for example: even the British ambassador is writing home about human rights violations but President Karimov lets the US use his air bases so it's hushed up, just like in the good old days when Saddam was shaking hands with Rumsfeld. The neocons are just playing the same old game that's been going on for thousands of years - using your money to make themselves and their class more powerful, and it has to stop, whether it's americans, british, french, dutch, spanish, portuguese or romans doing it.

Anyway, with this thread being about foreign involvement in the choosing of others' governments, I'm surprised nobody mentioned South America yet.