April 18th, 2003, 11:59 PM
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Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
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Originally posted by DavidG:
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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Oldest European Democracy... Poland
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Huh Poland?? Does that 'brief' period during the cold war were they didn't have elections for 6o years not count?
BTW who knew my 'stable democracy' comment would send this OT thread on another tangent. 
Better than the continuous stream of BS propaganda that it was before...
When someone doesn't agree with me I think it's propaganda too.
Anyway reading all this talk of Democracy in America makes me think of an 8th grade civics class. It's arguable for instance that the Civil War was really a failure of Democracy.
America is really a Plutocracy - if you were to look at the bank accounts of Bush's cabinet or most of the members of congress it would be self-evident. Also Their are plenty of examples of successful long lived states that were not Democracies. One thing they all do have in common is a strong legal system. I can give numerous examples.
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