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Originally Posted by matthew330
it wasn't funny, not even a little bit?
wow, i was rude AND insulting......hell, at least i did both in three words. BTW..how was Manx's not? Please, you want this discussion to stay about America and the spread of democracy, quit provoking me, unless of course your trying to get me banned. Which couldn't be the case, because this community is all about respect right?
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I was provoking you to stay on subject, as opposed to you who are prevoking a fight. If you get banned, it will be no one's fault but your own.
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
It just hit me: many people who's opinions, based on their posts on this board, would be identified as liberal/democrat are now trying to make arguements AGAINST democracy. The very people who dislike Bush because of his supposed undemocratic policies. Isn't he always compared to Hitler/Mussollini/facism in general? Do liberals/dems hate Bush so much that no matter what he supports, they immediately have to take the opposite side? He has also came out against AIDS, what's next, a thread supporting HIV? And now when he states his support for democratic principles, and tries (not even overtly in the case of Russia) to help ensure that people across the world will be able to choose their government, you instantly have to take the other side. Has hatred of Bush blinded people to any objective thought whatsoever?
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America isn't a democracy, so it's moot. "We" are against people using the government towards selfish ends. We are against killing of innocent people, and the needless endangerment of our friends and family who choose to serve our country in the armed forces. The mistake is automaticlly asuming that democracy is the right government for Iraq right now. In 50 years, it may be perfect for them, but we simply don't know. All I know is that America decided that Iraq would be a democracy.
Bush is anti-abortion, and I agree with him whole heartedly on that. Therefore, I do not automatically take the opposite side.
I think that a true democracy can work really well. Canada is doing alright.