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 | With me is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Our relations with Latin America seem to be deteriorating. Your comments? | |
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| "[I believe such a characterization] misses the mark. We saw dictatorships there. And then we saw most of those countries, with the exception of Cuba, for the most part move towards democracies. We also saw corruption in that part of the world. And corruption is something that is corrosive of democracy." | |
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| Yeah, no corruption here in GOP-occupied Washington. | |
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| "We've seen some populist leadership appealing to masses of people in those countries. And elections like Evo Morales in Bolivia take place that are kind of worrisome. I mean, we've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He's a person who was elected legally-- just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally-- and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others." | |
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| So-- you're saying free elections are a BAD thing? | |
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| Duh. We don't have them here anymore, do we? | |
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