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Old 07-17-2007, 12:37 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by baloney_detector View Post
Well, if you don't like your representative government's actions/policies, then you can always have your say by casting your vote in an effort to throw them out of office.
Oh, just like voting in Johnson stopped the escalation of the Vietnam War?

Your trust in America's version of democracy is very naive. Perhaps we could not bring functional democracy to Iraq because we do not have it ourselves.
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