Where is the Democracy!

Don't trust what you see in the news.

Any by the way, the US isn't even a true democracy.

A true democracy is non-existent I'm afraid.

And I do think those pictures are sickening.

The US has a fine government.

It is democratic in the sense that it is elected and operates with the will of the people. We also have democratic institutions including the rule of law, protection of civil rights and a free press.

I would rather live here than in Iraq.

Totally true ebrown_p.

Of course, our rights have been eroded so badly here in the US that the Constitution is nothing more than paper. For some strange reason we keep electing people that take our rights away. With people like our running our government don't expect them to create a greater Democracy in Iraq.

am glad to see that we all have the same opinion about the Democracy of the US either in or out the US.

Is there anything that we can do to stop such actions?

Put in a Marxist government?

Just kidding of course.

Elect people other than the current bunch that is in there now.

Then try to get congress to reexamine the patriot act.

This might not have anything to do with the thread's theme, but it is a comment about Iraq; so maybe it will be ok.

This morning in passing I head on TV an interview on MSNBC given by somebody(don't know who, didn't listen to all of it) who said that now Iraq is in danger of falling into the wrong hands if the US does not closely monitor it. Then the interviewer asked him about the Israeli's training the kurds and that it wasn't anything new, that they have been trying to get the kurds in power in Iraq for a long time.

I guess it does have something to do with the thread. What kind of democracy is it when you have outside elements trying to manipulate who is in power of a country?

The pictures are heartwrenching.