When George Bush sleazed the 2000 election out from under Al Gore, he did more damage internationally than anyone has yet acknowledged. In securing the leadership of a leading democracy by applying the Cheneyan belief that the ends justifies the means, democracy lost its best proponent and its greatest selling feature.
What is democracy when it cannot claim integrity as the collective will of a majority of the people?
Hmm...
Since the leading proponents of democracy -- the US -- clearly no...
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