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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (105330)7/14/2003 5:47:25 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
<How awful if government were accountable to the people through free and fair elections.>

If the rhetoric matched reality, I'd be on your side, NeoCon. If there had been free and fair elections, and governments who derived their powers "from the consent of the governed", in Kuwait post-1991, and Afghanistan post-2002, and Iraq post-2003, then I'd believe Bush. But I see nothing but tyranny, following after our conquering soldiers, in all 3 places. I see no elections.

Further, I see efforts by our government, to undermine elected governments in Turkey and Iran, because the people there have chosen governments that made the "wrong" decisions.
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