kandrathe,Feb 22 2003, 08:42 AM Wrote:You know and I know that they are not the targets. They know what they are doing, they know the bombs are coming, and if they are still in the way when the bombs fall, then they will have only served to aid Iraq. Iraq, the nation, is the enemy, and Saddam in particular since he controls everything in Iraq. If you strengthen the enemy, you are the enemy as well.Strengthen the enemy? Well that's new.
Do these people take up arms in defence of Iraq? No, they do not. To do so would make them an enemy. To stand in the face of the American war machine and and plee for it to back down does not make them an enemy.
Quote:You are in a dictatorship then?
No. I vote for the people I want running my country in a democratic election under a proportional representation voting system that yields a more accurate 'snapshot' of the people's will than what most democracies can claim.
But that wasn't what I was posting about. Some (most?) of these people don't get to vote for the American president because some of of them aren't American.
Quote:Representative leaders make decisions on behalf of their populations, and that is what they were elected to do. I can't speak for the positions of Howard, Blair, Chirac, or Schroeder, they are subject to the whims of their respective democracies.
Not true.
1.) Bush is a leader I have no right to vote for and yet his administration often makes decisions that effect my life. Effectively Bush makes decisions on behalf of many populations who never voted for him.
2.) Howard and Blair are operating in stark contrast to the collective will of their people and the whims of their democracies will not stop them supporting America. Only their own parties or an early election can do that.
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