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Ian Campbell
St Julians
Dick Cheney at the World Economic Forum said that the Bush Administration project was to “promote democracy.” Whose model of democracy? It is clear from the proposals made by Bremer in Iraq that his is based on the primary system for selecting party candidates for the USA Presidential Elections.
Almost each state in the USA has a different system, candidates have to raise vast sums of money to even try to be selected, and the final ballot is wide open to gerrymandering at least, and open to total corruption in some states.
To be perfect, it requires 100 percent voter registration, in Iraq and Afghanistan, imagine identifying each person, then verifying each on polling day, all the population over the age of eighteen, starting from nothing to four months.
Imagine policing the polling stations, collecting the ballot boxes, returning them intact to the counting stations, overseeing that each ballot paper is valid, is counted, and the total vote added up.
The richest country on earth the USA cannot do it, the result of their last election was decided by the courts, not by the electors, in favour of the man who came second in the popular vote.
How can Bush lead the world if he does not realise that the words written for him to read out at his State of the Union Address were meaningless rubbish. How can we have confidence in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, most Members of Congress, and of the House when they give him a standing ovation for being able to read out, but not understand the words written for him. |
