Reply #6: The fact that the coup was allowed in 2000 set the stage for 04

[havocmom]

Anyone who didn't see it coming needs to lose the rose colored lenses.

The junta flew the trial balloon of 'possibly needing to cancel election
due to terrorist threat' and that was shot down. So what they did was to cancel it due to 'technical difficulties' but the went through with the charade of letting people vote, well some of them anyway.

There was no election in 2004 in America. There was a really nasty campaign and a pre-arranged result but there was no election. And if we let that stand, there never will be an election here again.

I stand amazed: Americans wonder how the German people let Hitler rise to power. They wonder about how tyrants manage to stay in power. They marvel at the Iraqi people putting up with Saddam until the PNAC 'liberated' them. And then so many just shrug off the usurping of power by criminals in the US. Just too awful to think of it. Too horrible to interrupt their daily diversions.

All it took for evil to triumph was to pretend it won fair and square so we could all get back to our favorite reality shows and ignore that the nation needs to be defended on a daily basis.