Bush Dines With Fellow Autocrat
President Bush says Iraq was the right thing to do because it was important to bring democracy to the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Bush administration supports the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan. A country that has seen two opposition leaders murdered during the last year.
There are two reasons the administration supports Kazakhstan. One is that the nation has a large oil reserve. Secondly, the country has been on the US side on the ”War on Terror,” even providing some troops in Iraq. So basically, it’s a big friendly reach around going here.
When Dick Cheney visited Kazakhstan in the spring he praised the nation’s political development. This was after the murder of the opposition leaders and after the Kazakh president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev received 91% of the vote in the nation’s elections. Wow! The racist Trent Lott doesn’t even get that in Mississippi. Of course, the fact that the Kazakh government runs the TV news always helps.
The Kazakh government has also recently kicked out the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and the International Republican Institute. These are two major American organizations that oversee fair democracy. Clearly they have no place in Kazakhstan.
Despite all this, President Nazarbayev dined with Mr. Bush at the White House Friday night. We’re sure oil and political manipulation were two topics of conversation between the two autocrats. Yet we are the “bright beacon of democracy.”
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