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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Cogito who wrote (79806)10/10/2006 1:20:04 PM
From: TimFRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
This is just taking the argument to a ridiculous extreme.

Nothing ridiculous or even extreme about it at all

It's not really relevant to my point about Iraq, nor does it refute it.

I'm not sure that it refutes your intended point as much as it points out a weakness in how you expressed it. It depends on what you meant.

If your point was just that Iraq's government relies on force than your point was correct but not very relevant. If your point is that Iraq isn't a democracy because it relies on a much greater degree of internal force than the US or Sweden, or that it can't be a democracy because it relies on force applied by the armies of other countries than your conflating democracy and security, and your point isn't correct. If your point is that Iraq is much more dependent on direct application of force than say Sweden the US, or most other democracies than your point is correct and relevant.
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