Today's DEMOCRACY HYPOCRISY comes from Lebanon. Last year, during the "Cedar Revolution" the Bush administration and Bush supporters were GUNG-HO on this display of the democratic process..... because it served their overall goals and objectives. Today, the demonstrations in Lebanon are even bigger than the "Cedar Revolution" - but the Bush administration, Bush supporters, and even the corporate media are ignoring them....... since this is headed in a direction they do not like. This clip is from a blog called "The Non-Arab Arab":
The opposition protests in Beirut are absolutely massive, far bigger than the vaunted "Cedar Revolution" protests of not so long ago which the Bush Administration hailed. Suddenly now though, the exact same peaceful tactics when employed by political parties the Bush Administration and the West doesn't like, are "an attempted coup" or some other hogwash. Bald-faced open hypocrisy which proves that Arabs are right when they say Bush is a liar when he claims to want democracy. He wants only pro-US stooges, if they can get there via democratic means then great for the propaganda, but if they need to be kept in power via undemocratic means then the propaganda needs to be flipped in their service.
You can read more of what that blogger has to say
HERE.
Yes, it is having a US-compliant governments that is their focus, not having a democratic governments. And by US-compliant means very friendly to corporations and corporate interests. And that is today's installment in the Democracy Hypocrisy series.
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