After almost 50 years in power, Fidel Castro, 81, has stepped down as President of Cuba. Commenting on this news, US President George W. Bush expressed his hopes that Cuba will make a transition towards democracy.
"Eventually, this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections -- and I mean free, and I mean fair -- not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as true democracy," Bush said.
Given the controversial circumstances in which George W. Bush was first elected in 2000, with allegations of electoral fraud and irregularities in the state of Florida, where a handful of disputed votes determined the outcome of the election and gave Bush the Presidency, I couldn't help but note the irony in this statement.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
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