Thread: Bush's Speech
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Old 10-09-2002, 12:58 PM   #23
Timber Loftis
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Good Sir T:

I would simply point out that Democracy is not the only VALID form of government. It's ours, but not everyone's. Monarchy, Totalitarianism, Socialism, Communism, etc. are all as *valid* as a democracy. Especially if we're talking International Law. Just because we have elections doesn't mean everyone does. As well, unless there are humanitarian issues at stake, such as genocide (and I'm not saying that this is not the case with Saddam), you make internationally *legal* war on a Nation because of the way it interacts with other nations and the group of nations, not the way it governs its populace.

In logical syntax, there is a distinction of course between *valid* and *sound*. But the *soundness* of one form of government or another seems unclear as well.
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