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stas
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« on: May 17, 2008, 03:45:21 pm »
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2008-05-17T030913Z_01_N16434887_RTRUKOC_0_UK-AFGHANISTAN-USA-PRISON.xml

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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2008, 07:30:03 pm »
I'm not sure what building a prison in Afghanistan has to do with democracy......care to elaborate?
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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2008, 07:54:00 pm »
How about building school and hospitals and not prisons?
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2008, 10:32:33 pm »
But what does that have to do with democracy?  Sounds more like a case of mismanagement and misguided priorities.
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2008, 11:42:58 pm »
I think stas is just being sarcastic about our stupidity in the middle east, and that being results of our democracy.

But we haven't democratically voted for war in some time.  Congress hasn't voted to Declare War since WWII, which is the DEMOCRATIC way to go to war.  But Congress would rather not take a stand, and just let shit happen, and then say they didn't take a stand and should therefore be re-elected.

That's how we've gotten into all of these evil wars.  But as I've laid out, those weren't democratically determined or fueled wars.
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