Re: Georgia, Russia - demonstrating democracy ....

Pretty simple minded bitch aren't you ?

"Karen Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> (K): THIS is how a country removes a leader they do not want.  If the
> U.S. had truly wanted a better leader for the Iraqi people, they would
> have been able to convince the Iraqis that there was a better way and
> that Iraqis could make that choice - with the backing of the coountries
> of the United Nations.  The U.S. invaded a country that they had weakened
> through years of sanctions and embargos.
>
> The Russian people have shown the world that they, the people under a
> government they wanted gone, were the ONLY ones to depose that government.
> No interference from a country that is known for its imperialism under the
> pretext of 'world policeman'.
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>
> Georgia's Shevardnadze resigns
>
> Georgians mount an armourned vehicle near the residence of Georgian
> President Eduard Shevardnadze in Tbilisi to celebrate his resignation
Sunday.
>
> Mark MacKinnon and Associated Press - Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003
>
>
> Tbilisi, Georgia
>
> Fireworks exploded over the Georgian parliament this evening after it was
> announced that President Eduard Shevardnadze had signed his resignation
> papers, ending a three-week standoff over allegedly rigged elections.
>
>
> The 75-year-old, best known in the West as the man who helped Mikhail
> Gorbachev end the Cold War, formally stepped down a day after opposition
> protestors seized the parliament and declared what they called a "velvet
> revolution."
>
> "To a free Georgia! Shevardnadze is no more!" shouted a group of young men
> pouring champagne on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi's main drag.
>
> "In the West you think he's a hero well look at your hero now," said Ramaz
> Chilakhadze, a protestor draped in the red-and-white flag of the
> opposition national movement.
>
> "He was just an old thief. People want money and jobs."
>
> A crowd of protesters massed in front of parliament erupted into cheers
> and waved flags after opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili went on
> national television and announced the president's resignation.
>
> "I consider that it is necessary to do this," said Mr. Shevardnadze, who
> has led the ex-Soviet republic for a decade, after signing the resignation
> at his residence on the outskirts of Tbilisi, the Interfax news agency
> reported.
>
> The announcement came after two days of turmoil in Tbilisi, triggered by
> Nov. 2 parliament elections that the opposition and the United States say
> were rigged. Opposition protesters took over parliament on Saturday,
> driving Shevardnadze out of the chamber, and declared an interim
government.
>
>
> The opposition had seized parliament a day earlier, forcing Mr.
> Shevardnadze to flee the building as he attempted to open the first
> session of the new parliament elected in the widely denounced Nov. 2
voting.
>
> "The president has accomplished a courageous act," Mr. Saakashvili said in
> remarks shown on Georgian television. "By his resignation, he avoided
> spilling blood in the country ..... History will judge him kindly."
>
> Mr. Saakashvili had promised to guarantee the safety of the Georgian
> leader and his family if Mr. Shevardnadze resigned.
>
> Zurab Zhania, another key opposition figure, said Mr. Shevardnadze would
> not leave the country, but further details on his circumstances were not
> immediately available.
>
> Mr. Zhvania said parliamentary elections would be held within 45 days.
>
> Mr. Shevardnadze's control of this ex-Soviet republic had been slipping
> Sunday as leaders of protesters already occupying parliament urged tens of
> thousands of supporters to seize more organs of state power, and some
> military units defected to the jubilant protesters thronging the capital's
> streets.
>
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