tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14902719.post116537521839851764..comments2007-03-11T10:59:52.498-05:00mikevoteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010028700825655843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14902719.post-1165379251309842442006-12-05T22:27:00.000-06:002006-12-05T22:27:00.000-06:00Yes. It's politics.<BR/><BR/>And, I don't think the intention was ever to really export democracy in its true sense.<BR/><BR/>The goal was to export a democracy that could be massaged to produce a government that is friendly to the US and not Shia dominant, even though that's what the voters might want.<BR/><BR/>Mikemikevoteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010028700825655843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14902719.post-1165379085543688852006-12-05T22:24:00.000-06:002006-12-05T22:24:00.000-06:00And if so many of us voted in effect to end the war and get our troops the hell home, but all the great minds in Washington and all the great minds of the media agree with one another that we can't simply begin pulling troops out, doesn't that pretty much confirm that we don't have functioning democracy right here in the US? And if that's the case, then we are trying to export a commodity that we don't have. And we are borrowing money we don't have to pay for exporting a commodity we don't have. Is this insane or what?Newsguyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14985481708249946300noreply@blogger.com