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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
She is an embarassment to our country, which should be united behind President Bush. A free Iraq is a very good thing for long term world peace.
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1. Last time I checked this was a democratic republic. How can someone who pursues something in which she believes - even if you don't agree with her - be more embarassing than the millions who don't even care enough to vote?
2. President Bush is an elected
representative. Thus the onus is on him to carry out the wishes of the electorate and unless he does that, he should have no expectation that people will unite behind him. Even when the majority do, the right to dissent is implicit in our form of government.
3. Even if you are naive enough to believe that freedom for Iraq is the reason we invaded that country, there has never been a single successful example of social engineering by military force. If we could defy those odds, the majority of Iraqis are not pro-West but of the same religious leaning as Iran. Thus it is a huge stretch of the imagination to believe that a Shi'ite Iraq would contribute anything to world peace or even to peace in the region.