From: Dave 

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.

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