Hey, Chris, no apology was "due" or needed. I could see plainly by your recent words that you felt badly stung by the claim (which was just how you said it would be if there were no WMD).

As to the Libertarian or other parties, I agree that you **could** vote for any other party, but in reality it is a foregone conclusion that you would be 'wasting' your vote by doing so.
I say this because the big TWO control virtually everything, and what they don't control the media and corporations cover. So in the end people can take some comfort in voting for one of the other parties, but with so much stacked against them those parties have not an iota of gaining power. An isolated seat or two can happen, but any strength in numbers is out of the question.
When more than the big TWO can get decent media coverage it will cghange, but until then you are between a rock and a hard place.

cheers


>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