To: zimdog
No democratic republic has ever suffered a famine. Socialism and kleptocracy is what starves people.
26 posted on
07/31/2005 5:38:00 AM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
To: muir_redwoods
French President Jacques Chirac had been the only head of state to bring up the subject of Niger at the G8 summit in Scotland. What a humanitarian that Jacques is.....
27 posted on
07/31/2005 6:49:01 AM PDT by
alisasny
(We get 4 more years, you get OBAMA...: ))
To: muir_redwoods
well, niger is a democratic republic.
my point is that the shortage of food was caused (in the short term at least) by a plague of locusts last august and september. government policies may have exacerbated the problem, but niger isn't a socialist kleptocratic state. mainly because there ain't much to steal in niger.
28 posted on
08/02/2005 9:29:38 AM PDT by
zimdog
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