That's lame. In the US you can protest gov. decisions and change them. In the Soviet Union, that got you imprisoned. There was only one party in the Soviet Union, there are multiple parties here. I could go on and on. Any similarties can only be argued on the "power corrupts" argument, but here we have checks and balances on power so that one group or one person does not have overwhelming power.

>Im sorry for saying this, but...
>This seems hardly the place to talk about this kind of things...
>but since it started...
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>its true that no weapons have been found, its also true that iraq had used them before, its true that the US only entered iraq to gain access to the oil. so what ? who good sense can say that is country wouldnt do that if it was a superpower?
>I wonder what the soviet union was doing right now if the cold war turned there way...
>Its also true that even the allied countrys of US dont like them that much (europe included) because of there atitude.
>I really ask for an apology in advance of US people, but they seem to have a not so diferent system compared with the Soviet Union (two big factions, more or less in agreement, the "big money guys" always protected).
>in the other end, midle east countrys,are, lets say, mined by the idea that all around them its bad, europeans included, and there is always someone that want to frame them.
>what they cant see, is that who is framing them, are the ones who want power in there countrys and need enemys to gain peoples aproval.
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>by the way, some arabe country decided that an european cant live, because he wrote a book ??????
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