Why is that so-called "democracies" are the only nations waging war

[cantstandbush]

invading other people, and occupying other people's land? I can't find one dictatorship that has launched a war in the past decade. Neither Castro, Gadaffi, or N. Korea, or China. What is wrong with this picture?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Well, to be fair.

Most of the wars of the past ten years have been civil or regional wars, and certainly many of those involved brutal, undemocratic regismes, if not outright dictatorships.

[cantstandbush]

3. Civil warriors do not INVADE or OCCUPY other people. n/t

[rman]

2. "past decade" is a very brief time, to limited in my opinion.

I mean, what about Hitler (with support from certain US industrials). And the Iraq-Iran war (with support from the US on both sides). Iraq invasion of Kuwait (with permission from the US).

I think i get the point you're trying to make, but it's a bit more complicated than that.

Many of the dictatorships were established by so-called democracies - with the most prominent one as the front-runner (the US) - to ensure support for safeguarding the interests of the wealthy nations.

[cantstandbush]

4. HITLER WAS ELECTED!!! As a matter or fact, so was Saddam!

Hey, we even allege that Bush was ELECTED.

[rman]

6. Hitler was not elected

By means of political maneuvering and power-play he managed to convince the then German Cancelor to hand over authority to him. The very first thing he did was declare a state of emergency, and grant himself all the power of the government.
So Hitler came to power semi-legally under a democratic system - but without actually being elected, and once he was in power he turned Germany into a dictatorship.

[Book Lover]

5. Sadly, I can

Please googlenews Darfur and Sudan.