On 9/21/2010 2:33 PM, John Smith wrote:

We once had a democratic republic, now we just
have the republic ...

How ironic...seeing as we are poking our noses into other countries and
telling them that they need democracy (and sometimes forcing it down
their throats like in Afghanistan and Iraq), as if democracy is "one
size fits all". And yet as you imply above, we may not even have true
'democracy' here.

Priceless.