It’s been a hectic holiday week filled with visitors. I’ve had to cancel some events as I was hit last weekend by some nasty flu-bug and sending it on to the coast with my loved ones didn’t seem like a very neighbourly thing to do.
I’m days behind in my reading. A quick search just now failed to find articles that reveal specific details about the illegality of the Georgia vote or how widespread the fraud. I could be missing a lot, but I get the impression interest in such facts fell off the radar once Shevardnadze resigned.
Just some additional links and thoughts that continue to nag me.
More than a few of these articles I’ve glanced at this morning are characterising the U.S. role in this as supportive of the opposition from the very beginning of their vote-rigging accusations. Yet as the Financial Times correctly reports:
In Azerbaijan, the US acted more decisively, quickly congratulating Ilham Aliyev as the new president even as his security forces were arresting the opposition, and after independent observers had criticised the polls.
Mark MacKinnon, on Nov. 26, reported in detail about the role George Soros’ funding played and his relationship with Mikhail Saakashvili which goes back at least to 2000.
I’m heading back to my sick bed.