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Yes. Osama Bin Laden.
WTF none of those have anything to do with democracy. Did you think "democracy" meant "do everything that you personally want"? Do you not get that you are not the only voter? LMFAO.
How is going into Vietnam a war AGAINST democracy. Vietnam does not have a democracy, although South Vietnam had a democracy in 1975. And South Korea has a democracy today, because of the Korean War.
they were all antidemocratic. none of them supported justice. the North Vietnamese wanted communism. denying that using the war machine is antidemocratic.
Dude you are using "antidemocratic" to mean "anything I do not like" instead of "not what the voters wanted". It's kind of rude to pretend that you are the only voter who matters.
How would you know? There was no election. That is like claiming the Italians wanted Fascism. And the reason for the war was to defend that other country of South Vietnam which definitely did not want communism.
the supposed reason for the war was the gulf of tonkin, and the real motivation was dominoe theory. don't lie.
So you now admit US involvement in the (2nd of 3) Vietnam wars was not to "spread democracy".
that was my position the whole time: democrats are lying about supporting democracy.
And you've been wrong the whole time.
you just said i was right.
You were wrong about many different things
if that were true you could enumerate them
something the majority did not choose.
Then all your examples are wrong.
there is a cure for historical illiteracy.
Good you need that.
one of us does.
not just Osama. American citizens.