Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Epxroot, while I agree with you that Bush should listen to the will of his people, I still stand by my point. As I described above, America is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy like in ancient Greece. You're supposition that Bush must bow to the will of the people seems to be based on principle, not on interpretation of legal precedent. In the system under which America currently resides, leaders are accountable to the people by being voted in or out. The only way the people could legally force the army out of Iraq would be to hold a vote, and that unfortunately is done by the discretion of the government. Even if a pull-out vote was held, it would more than likely be done through congressional means; and in fact it was a few months back.
I respect your response and your stance on the subject. I understand the system that we are under, but the free republic which is the system that we were intended to be under has been taken away from us. How can we as americans keep funding this war and not even raise an eye to the fact that we can't say when we leave and when we don't? I just don't understand how we can wake up in the morning and just go on about our day as if we don't even know that 1000's of innocent humans are being killed, and that 1000's of them have no where to sleep. Hey though as long as we have are sports, cars, clothes, gadgets, and titty bars who cares.

I am not arguing your point I am just stating that somthing is really wrong with our current system. If 51% rule over the 49% who gets to decide who is in what group?