By the way, I owe you a long overdue apology concerning the war in Iraq. If I remember correctly, things got heated in our exchanges, and I now regret that. I honestly believed that Saddam had WMDs, and we were justified in our attack. If he had had stockpiles of WMDs, I would still stand firmly behind that position. It's now apparent that he didn't, and my position was wrong. I apologize to you and anyone I else I mixed it up with.


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>Hi Chris,
>Long time no talk < s >.
>But what choice do you have as regards your use of the ballot box???
>The two biggies have assured that other parties can 'exist' (thus removing, they feel, any arguments about the domocraticness of your system) but they make ALL the rules to ensure that those parties never have a voice of even marginal significance.
>I bet they - the two biggies - would not even entertain a simple change in voting rules that would allow a meaningful "NONE OF THE ABOVE" on every ballot.
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>Given the current state of affairs what can you, the voters, do to change things?
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>cheers