>>Jeez, I thought America was supposed to be a democracy!
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>Just picking a nit. The USA is a representative republic not a democracy. For now...
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>http://www.albatrus.org/english/goverment/govenrment/democracy%20versus%20repubblic.htm

Well they certainly spend a lot of time promoting Democracy in the rest of the world. I assume they believe in it themselves......