Would you Vote?

Plato, the Republic, criticizes democracy for its tendency to bring forth demagogues who play to appetites of the people. His student, Aristotle, warned in book VIII of the Politics, that democracies are inimicable to private property as the majority, led on by demagogues, will vote to take away the property of the more productive and wealthier citizens.

The vote in Iraq is a unique event created from the outside to establish democracy on the inside. The potential for establishing a form of democratic rule is alive. The process has many faults in that country. People are fearful to vote. Certain groups of nationalities have moved themselves into various localities in order to bring a majority vote into that area. Rebellion is rampant. And American reliability is put into question.

Now that that is said, Iraqies may have a say in running their own government. This notion bothers many Arab countries, as it jeopordizes the monopoly that those dicatorships/demagoques have on their own power.

The road to such elections were created with falsifications and lies to world opnion. American interests were the main harbringer of the current state of affairs. One could only hope the best for the Iraqies.

Actually, they are property of the government, and as Plessy v. Ferguson said, property has no rights by virtue of itself. Therefore soldiers aren't citizens.

i didnt know that.

what does it say in their passports? didnt it say that the holder of this passport is a Citizen of the United States of America?

so when they become citizens? when they retire?

Are you saying that USA came to Iraq to bring democracy? No !! They were looking for "weapons of mass destructions". To find them they have killed hundreds of thousands civilians but they realised that there was not "weapons of mass destructions" in Iraq.  To undestand this masses have been destroyed. What is the IQ level of this behavior? How can we trust USA's future plans on Iraq?  

If you want to fight it means that you are not searching for safer places..........

Controversial question... Although I would probably have signed for the resistance, if I lived in Iraq, to fight the invaders of my country, I can't say I would not vote.

It's fairly complicated issue this one and I can't give a precise answer.

I am all for democracy (the more democratic the better, is my motto) but this parody is definitely nothing close to "democracy". And democracy, when not a product from within, is bound to fail. Ever heard again the "democracy imposed by invaders"? I mean, this is ridiculous...

There is a simple solution to people who do not wish to govern themselves: give them ample education, free access to knowledge and a fairly high standard of living. Then, they'll not only be ready for democracy, but they'll establish it themselves.

Any other solution is not working.

I wouldnt be dumb enough to vote, I would be using the chaos and power vacuum to be running as a canidate!  Sure thats even riskier, but the potential is far greater.  I would run on a popular platform of Americans and foreign fighters out, catering to the base insticts of both sides, then once my ends where achieved I would put educated peopoe in my cabinet from every ethnic and religious background, then ruthlessly exterminate the fundamentalists in ways even their creul minds could not begin to imagine.

For stability and peace a choas torn nation like Iraq really needs someone as strong as Saddam was, but nicer to his people