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**corolaelwis** · 02-22-2007, 10:07 PM

Good question, and it is especially confusing when one sees that the vast majority of people in those countries do not support the war. A further irony is that in Canada we did not join the war and we ended up putting a government in power that would have, and all through that there has never been support for the iraq war in canada amongst any significant part of the population.

Andrew your an intelligent guy...the reason it seems confusing is becuse of what is potrtrayed of people's views. See for every protestor who goes around saying Bush killed Children and Cheney eats babies, how many do you think sit at home and support the war? I support the war, but i don't go around the streets shouting and screaming about it do i?? For all of us who do support the war do you ever hear about it? Does it ever get mentioned? There are a lot of folks voices who never get heard as far as public opinion goes because we're not so vocal but our way of politics is different, we wait until election day and actually go vote in mass numbers because we already know who and what we're gonna vote for, we rally our bases differently. We don't go tell the entire nation "Vote for us as he did this or that" but we respond to those we get energy and feedback fom ourselves, those likely to actually vote for us. Its a completely diffeent system and i'll get into it more in refference to your statement about Democratic deficits.

02-22-2007, 10:07 PM	#35
corolaelwis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	Good question, and it is especially confusing when one sees that the vast majority of people in those countries do not support the war. A further irony is that in Canada we did not join the war and we ended up putting a government in power that would have, and all through that there has never been support for the iraq war in canada amongst any significant part of the population. Andrew your an intelligent guy...the reason it seems confusing is becuse of what is potrtrayed of people's views. See for every protestor who goes around saying Bush killed Children and Cheney eats babies, how many do you think sit at home and support the war? I support the war, but i don't go around the streets shouting and screaming about it do i?? For all of us who do support the war do you ever hear about it? Does it ever get mentioned? There are a lot of folks voices who never get heard as far as public opinion goes because we're not so vocal but our way of politics is different, we wait until election day and actually go vote in mass numbers because we already know who and what we're gonna vote for, we rally our bases differently. We don't go tell the entire nation "Vote for us as he did this or that" but we respond to those we get energy and feedback fom ourselves, those likely to actually vote for us. Its a completely diffeent system and i'll get into it more in refference to your statement about Democratic deficits.
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