smirk said: "democratic countries do not wage aggressive wars."

[donsu]

and then he smirked


http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20041227hc.htm


Democracy by cookie cutter


U.S. President George W. Bush claims his policy is to promote democracy because democratic countries do not wage aggressive wars.

The principle of promoting democratic regimes is one that the vast majority of people living in countries where the government can claim to have been democratically elected are likely to support. But there may well not be full agreement on the meaning of democracy or on which countries can rightly claim to be democracies. It is also questionable whether U.S. foreign policy lives up to the president's claim.

-snip-

In the U.S., it is debatable whether the electoral college system for choosing a president fairly represents the wishes of American voters. Moreover, observers of U.S. elections have noted that many constituency boundaries have peculiar shapes and appear to have been rigged to ensure that one party always wins. As a result, it would appear that in only a small number of American local constituencies do voters of the minority party have a chance to influence the outcome. The efficiency of the voting systems in many states also is open to question.
(ain't that the truth)

-snip-

Democratic states that do not support U.S. policies are, in Bush's view, either not really democratic or have electorates that been misled by foolish or evil leaders. It is hardly surprising, then, that some observers consider the president's attempt to promote democratic regimes as disingenuous, if not hypocritical.
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and we all know that smirk means the exact opposite of what he says


america - the country that tortures

[MasonJar]

1. Now a new propaganda for the masses is unleashed. Bush

quite obviously thinks we are all idiots...wait, many are evidently.

[marc_the_dem]

5. at least 60 million

[Deja Q]

2. When will Captain Insane-o* look in the bloody mirror?!

British slang and literal use of 'bloody' both intended. Why does he do the opposite of what he says? He gives Christianity a bad name for one thing...

[spanone]

3. Dumber than a bag of hammers.

[JVS]

4. yeah but remember we're a republic

[Union Thug]

6. HAHAHAHAHA..hahahaha..HAHAHA..HAHAHA..

That lil' devil just can't resist dishing out the pregnant irony. Whatta guy!

[Swamp Rat]

7. Up is down, war is peace, the Earth is flat.

Heil Bush!

[Kber]

8. so by his logic, I guess we aren't a democratic country anymore

Nice of him to let us know.

[idiosyncratic]

12. Considering the results of the last election, we aren't a democratic

country anymore. If write-in votes for a candidate in San Diego don't get counted, and if votes are manipulated in OH, NM, NH, WA, and elsewhere . . . we aren't a democratic country anymore.

[seekinguniqueness]

9. That make no sense at all

The only way to win a war is to be aggressive

[youngred]

10. Irony has now flatlined

oy

[charlie]

11. Nobody tell him about the McDonald's rule

or he'll create a Big Mac Corps in the DoD and seat Ronald McDonald amongst the Joint Chiefs.

[lpbk2713]

13. Theoretically that's a correct statement.

But it doesn't apply to the country we live in now. Katherine Harris and the Supremes saw to it that our democratic govenment was superseded. It all went downhill from there.

[Tinoire]

14. He's right... & we're not a Democratic Country

this is reminiscent of Rhett Butler giving that Yankee captain his "word as a gentleman

[Shadowen]

15. A war where you're the *invader*...

By definition makes you the aggressor.

What dumbassery infests the highest echelons of American governments...