We occupied Germany, Japan and other places we defeated, and while under occupation forced these countries to rewrite their constitutions and hold elections under our guns.
Those countries are considered by rational people to be functional democracies. In Italy and France and elsewhere we interfered in elections to suppress communists.
Your naive, illiterate claims about elections held under occupation being meaningless are ill informed, and the 'thinking' behind the kind of statements you parrot here only give aid and support to enemies of democracy in places where we are struggling today to empower people to build civil societies in their countries.
But you do have fun posing as an informed person, so enjoy yourself.
Ed
Current Events » in reply to Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!)
You obviously never studied it, but way back in the 1940's we had a World War. In that war the left was suppressed and the US won.
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- Parallel universe - "Bush: Rumsfeld doing 'a really fine job'" No quagmire, I guess.
- Vote: Do you have confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld?
- There's your problem. You're reading the papers.
- It is impossible to judge the success of our efforts in Iraq until AFTER the upcoming elections and the establishment of a functional democracy in Iraq. If that fails, we have failed. Otherwise, we h… (n/t)
- The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
- Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
- God, would you PLEASE shut up or take your base insults and vulgarity over to flame! (n/t)
- "You are so fucking stupid. Ed" How so ed? (n/t)
- Study history, idiot. In fact, read the paper. Inspite of your cowardly lies, (n/t)
- Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!) (n/t)
- You obviously never studied it, but way back in the 1940's we had a World War. In that war the left was suppressed and the US won.
- You took careful,deliberate aim, and then shot yourself in the foot- (anyone surprised?)
- Yeah! the Evil Left that passed the New Deal, set up the TVA, the WPA, welfare and... dragged this country kicking and screaming into a war against the facists despite the pissing and moaning of righ…
- I thought the Republicans were more isolationist than the Dems pre-WWII? (n/t)
- Well, mostly suppressed. The USSR was there, and on our side. ;) (n/t)
- You obviously never studied it, but way back in the 1940's we had a World War. In that war the left was suppressed and the US won.
- Uh, let's have some substance, eb, something besides name-calling. (Right!!) (n/t)
- Study history, idiot. In fact, read the paper. Inspite of your cowardly lies, (n/t)
- Speak for yourself.
- Just like in Germany, Japan, and Afghanistan?
- You might not understand how much the Left has invested in failure in Iraq.
- Hmm. Still one of my better posts. Think I'll bookmark it. (n/t)
- I invest soley on a risk reward basis, I have nothing invested in Iraq, I am part of the left you reference... (n/t)
- Bowser is not interested in success or failure,
- Tom, it's YOU who gloat over others failures. The left is, as a rule, very, very sad.
- The "elections" mean squat. Nothing.
