From: "Mark" 


"Dave"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:15:52 -0500, "Mark"
 wrote
> in message :
>
> | The US has been promoting democracy since (and including) our
> inception --
> | it is in our blood. Most, if not all of our presidents, have at least
> talked
> | a good game, fewer have acted on it. Bush is a man of action -- driven
> by
> | the events of the era (9/11) to more aggressively promote our agenda
> than he
> | otherwise might have. It's too bad we had to wait this long to do so, we
> may
> | have avoided a number of tragedies had we started earlier (before
> Rwanda,
> | for instance.
>
> Promoting democracy is one thing, cramming it down peoples throats at
> gunpoint is quite another.

As opposed to their current systems of having dictatorship crammed down
their throats at gunpoint? We won our democracy at gunpoint, we used
gunpoint to free France, Germany, Japan, etc et al ad nauseum for the
history of our country -- you're saying you think it would be different
this time? 

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