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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:11 PM
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Would you feel like you just had "free and fair" elections if we had...
...an occupying force consisting of tens of thousands of armed to teeth Chinese soldiers running your election?

Keep in mind this is after the Chinese soldiers have killed tens of thousands of American men, women, and children while invading your country. Maybe family members of your own were killed by these Chinese soldiers?

The Chinese soldiers decide who can and who cannot be on the ballot.

The Chinese soldiers are in and around the polling place with you for your protection.

Then the Chinese soldiers collect the ballots and announce a winner.

The "winners" get to reside in the comforts of a six square mile protected zone guarded by...you guessed it...Chinese soldiers while you are eating dirt. Also you have no electricity or water half the time and are afraid to leave your house.

How would you feel about your "free and fair" election under those circumstances?

Is that the kind of democracy you would be happy with?

Well thats what the Iraqis got.

Don

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