Thus spake Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:18:19PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote:
> >
> >>Name one "democracy" we've set up. I'll bet you my right knuckle that 
> >>each and every one is a democracy in name only, and a republic in 
> >>practice.
> >
> >
> >Not even a republic.  Nicaragua: Dictatorship.  Afghanistan (America
> >brought Osama to power to begin with): Dictatorship.  Iraq (America
> >installed Saddam): Dictatorship.
> >
> >Name one republic America's created.
> >
> 
> the Phillipines, Panama, Haiti, Japan, West Germany...

I think others had hands in setting up Japan and (W) Germany at the
end of WWII.

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