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You can begin to get an idea of the prism through which the left sees the world here. Governments in which Clerics are in power through free elections are theocrocies and therefore, to be seen as ethically indistinguishable from the brutal Taliban, the only government to win the al Qaeda seal of approval. But what can you expect from a group that trembles everytime the President prays?

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where the heck do you nutty neocons get this stuff? PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS!!! the goal of a big portion of iraq's new parliment is to create a constitutional institutionalization of islamic law. there is a difference between electing a cleric, and forming a document intended to establish a particular religion as the very SOURCE of a nation's law. for example: we live in a constitutional-fedralist-republican-democracy. the islamists in iraq want to create a ISLAMIC-constitutional-parlimentary-demorcacy, which would be a theocracy, "government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided". unless you disagree with mr webster about the definition od 'theocracy', i'd say you have some more homework to do.

geez. go take a political theroy course, and come back when you know what you're talking about. bye [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

BTW, disagreeing with bush's mideast policy does nott make one a member of "the left".