[wagglebee]

In the wake of the American Revolution, the best the founders could do was to operate under the weak and inefficient Articles of Confederation. Finally, ten years later, they met to create a binding Constitution. It took two years for Congress to adopt the document and another two years of contentious debate before the required majority of states approved the Constitution of the United States.

And that was just the beginning. It took a long time for some of the states to accept the idea that they were part of a national union and not individual nations. Some of the disputes actually involved armed resistance, such as the so-called Whiskey Rebellion. Later, the nation split apart over the issue of slavery and a terrible civil war broke out.

In the end, however, we have survived for well over two centuries and today the United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth. And because we set an example for all the world to follow over 200 years ago, the people of Iraq have today taken a giant step to follow in our footsteps.

This needs to be repeated again and again until people get the message.

[Moonman62]

The United States had a very rough start.

[Theresawithanh]

Bump for a great read!

You should read Mark Steyn's latest, it's really, really good.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542999/posts

[samtheman]

Too bad the Democrats and their Marxist allies here in the U.S. can't see the miracle taking place in Iraq where for the third time, in spite of real and present dangers to life and limb, huge numbers of Iraqis voted in a free election.

Democrats and their Marxist allies? Aren't they the same people?