Democracy: Good for us, bad for the savages.
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CIA: Russia. Is very bad. Must be stop. Media: Ok but WE don't mess with other people's elections right???? CIA: welllllllllllllll huehueyumyumyumyumpic.twitter.com/RHoapteU8R
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Woolsey says the US only interferes in foreign elections "in the interest of democracy." He is of course using "democracy" in the Kissingerian sense, meaning "American hegemony."
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Historically, in the real world -- where words mean things -- foreign intervention has been the precise opposite of democratic. See: Iran, 1953; Russia, 1996; Honduras, 2009; etc.
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If ever you feel inclined to decry the despotism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, remember that the country's first and only parliamentary government was overthrown 55 years ago in a CIA-engineered coup.
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More recently, in 2009, the US backed a coup in Honduras in reaction to then-president Zedaya's call for -- wait for it -- a *constitutional assembly.*
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So, in fact, the US has killed masses of people around the globe specifically to *defeat* democracy in countries where the empire does not want it. In other words, the single greatest threat to democracy worldwide is the United States of America.
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Your thread contains lots of past examples, but he's answering a question about current interference. That's even more damning.
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To be fair, he did acknowledge past interference, though not unequivocally.
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Media: Ok but WE don't mess with other people's elections right???? CIA: Do you like Brazilian music?
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