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To: gondramB
Do you suppose the authors would have problem with us standing with with a country in Africa if it was the one shining example of democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of the press surrounded by brutal dictatorships intent on its destruction?

Well, there was one - S. Africa - and we helped to destroy it.

17 posted on 04/05/2006 8:09:29 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

"Well, there was one - S. Africa - and we helped to destroy it."


South Africa was not a democracy - it was an oligarchy.


19 posted on 04/05/2006 8:21:05 AM PDT by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
re :Well, there was one - S. Africa - and we helped to destroy it.

LOL It was hardly what we would call a shining example of democracy, with freedom of speech and freedom of the press

22 posted on 04/05/2006 8:28:47 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

Ha ha ha ha ha, good one. :P

OH, you're serious...


51 posted on 04/05/2006 12:18:53 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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