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To: vooch; Tamodaleko; Banat
Political maneuvering in order to win, or to hold on to power, is commonplace among politicians anywhere, and not something eclusively Serbian, Socialist, etc. Voter fruad charges have been plentiful in the last US elections and the 2-month haggling over "hanging chads" in Florida make everyone sick. Charges and counter-charges were flying left and right.

I think Banat's observation that -- exclusing Kosovo -- Serbia has only just over 7 million people, it is unreasonable to claim 6.5 million registered voters (that would be about 90% of the population!). Counting Albanians as "registered voters" is ridiculous. They have foresaken their right to vote by boycotts.

Now we are looking at an enigma as to how many voters could vote to begin with, and then there are some 120,000 non-existent voters in Belgrade, and so on. I think DSS has a legal basis for inquiry.

Tamodaleko, you are perpetuating a popular but unreasonable and naive myth that only Socialist bogeyman, Miloshevich, was cpabale of fraud and that -- by extension -- he is responsable or even guilty for everything that went wrong.

As for Djindjich being "Miloshevich's minnie me," he certainly seems to like controlling the media as much as his "bigger me."

The prevailing mindset in the Balkans is that the government is there to "rule," not to serve. That transcends the left as well as the right, and everyone inbetween.

70 posted on 10/15/2002 8:41:50 PM PDT by kosta50
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To: kosta50
>>>>>Tamodaleko, you are perpetuating a popular but unreasonable and naive myth that only Socialist bogeyman, Miloshevich, was cpabale of fraud and that -- by extension -- he is responsable or even guilty for everything that went wrong.<<<<<

Slobo was at the top of the ladder from 1987 to 2000. He bares most responsibility and then you go down the ladder. Btw, the popular myth that you are perpetuating that everyone else but Serbs are guilty for everything that went wrong to Serbs and Serbia is more naive.
73 posted on 10/16/2002 8:23:40 AM PDT by Tamodaleko
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