http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_...h/us_kazakhstan<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>WASHINGTON -President Bush heaped praise Friday on the president of Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country important to the United States as an oil supplier and war-on-terror ally but which has a political system that stifles dissent.</div> Then....<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>But it is also known internationally for a political system in which dissent is stifled.Nazarbayev has been his country's only leader since it achieved independence in December 1991 and has brought stability and prosperity. Like those of most other Central Asian nations, however, Kazakhstan's record on democracy and protecting human rights is regarded as poor.Nazarbayev was re-elected with 91 percent of the vote in December balloting that international observers called flawed. The 2004 parliamentary vote produced a legislature without a single opposition lawmaker.The New York-based Freedom House and other groups that support democracy and protection of human rights had called on Bush to make the issue a priority in their meeting.</div> This is essentially a communist government that Bush is praising, what a f*cking joke...
Their leader isn't a world threat and has not killed hundreds of thousands of people...so he's 'okay'.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Something-To-Say @ Sep 30 2006, 12:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Where and what the hell is Kazakhstan?</div> Ever here of google?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Sep 30 2006, 07:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ever here of google? </div>Is that a pokemon?
