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Hmm, so you want a minority democracy. Good luck to you making that one work at the polls. Who are you going to give two votes to?
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I never suggesting that the United States or any potential Government we should set up would be a Democracy.
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. "
-Thomas Jefferson
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Very hyperbolic. You seem to have tied the words theocracy and mass murdering together. I take it you cannot for the life of you think of any secular democracies that have been mass murderers?
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You should not be asking "I take it you cannot for the life of you think of any secular democracies that have been massmurders?"
If a "secular democracy" has ever commited mass murder is not even close to the point at hand.
You should be asking "Has there ever been a theocracy that has not commited mass murder".
When a Government can claim power by God they provide themselves with the "moral" sanction for their own actions. Since Islam is not based on the idea of Individual Rights and Republicanism, any Government based on it's law can not by it's very nature be a just and moral Government.
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I am NOT saying that they SHOULD be a theocracy. I am saying that they should choose their own form of government. If they choose a theocracy so be it. You won't make anything stick that the poeple don't want anyway, unless the US is going to stay in Iran and ensure the democractic minority hold power for the next 50/100/500 years.
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You don't understand, you are continuely contradicting yourself.
You say the United States does not have a right to "impose" our system of Government on them, but the majority of Iraqis have a right to create a Dictatorship or Theocracy and impose it on the rest of the Iraqis?
The only reason you have to justify your position is that "well it won't last because the majority will win anyways".
Also one last note, you claim that the Majority in all cases is to prevail. How can you claim this to be true, just look at Japan, nearly every Japanese person was opposed to a Constitution unilaterally drafted by MacCarther. But somehow it magicly survived even to this day and people today pasionatly support it,