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To: epsteinbd who wrote (58926)	11/26/2002 10:47:04 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Re It just happens that if America wants democracy everywhere, it's because they like that personal freedom concept. Please. Spare me the kid talk. Are you telling me that Bush woke up one day and realized there was no democracy in Iraq? That is a penetrating observation. I wonder why nobody in any previous American government saw that before. And how many nights does he have to sleep to one day wake up to the fact that there is no democracy in Saudi Arabia? Or that there is a dictator heading Pakistan? Oops, that's a US ally, isn't it? Has it occured to you, at least on a philosophical level, that you do not and cannot know what the best system is, and you are partial to your own system, and that every nation on this planet has the right to be governed by whatever system they choose? And if their system is dictatorial, that they will have to change it themselves without the US butting in? And that the very notion of any one country to think it has the right to change all the regimes on earth is the epitome of bullying by force? And how can you possibly justify, morally or legally, one country invading another because they do not like its system and feel their own system is better?

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