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Originally posted by roachboy
"its this pansy-ass liberal "But you said.." crap that prompts the political need to "justify" our actions to the public in the first place."
gee, i thought that in order to "export democracy" you would have to have it at home to export....if bushworld requires no public justification for its actions, how exactly is the united states different from a dictatorship?
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Just to be clear, America isn't a democracy - its a republic. This isn't a lesson in government, so I'll stop there. America
is not a dictatorship, as we ELECT our officials. If you don't like the job they're doing, fine - vote them out next time. But for the duration that they're elected, its up to them to run the country - not you. If you want to run the country, then get elected. Pandering to every american's whim is impossible, and it makes doing the tough things (like war) even harder and needlessly complicated. No - America isn't a dictatorship or a democracy - no more than the world is some eutopia that we can all just get along...what would you have done if YOU were president? Oh - and did you vote in the last presidential election?
[/emotions] Don't mean for anyone to take what I rant about personally - EVERYONE on TFP is a cut above the rest in my book!!