{"id":862,"date":"2003-04-26T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2003-04-26T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=862"},"modified":"2005-08-04T19:33:41","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T03:33:41","slug":"lets-import-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"let&#8217;s import democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/blog\/\">FFF blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/blog\/jgh2003-04.asp\">Bumper Hornberger<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n In light of the U.S. government&#8217;s profound commitment to democracy in Iraq, how about an immediate up-or-down vote among the Iraqi people on the following proposition: &#8220;Should the U.S. government stay or leave?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All U.S. officials .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. could campaign freely among the Iraqi people, explaining to them why it&#8217;s important to keep U.S. military forces in Iraq .&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. They could even demonstrate the virtues of American democracy by telling Iraqi voters what they tell American voters: that if they vote the wrong way, they won&#8217;t get any more federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>What could be more democratic than that? In fact, how about having the same vote right here at home?\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the FFF blog, Bumper Hornberger wrote: In light of the U.S. government&#8217;s profound commitment to democracy in Iraq, how about an immediate up-or-down vote among the Iraqi people on the following proposition: &#8220;Should the U.S. government stay or leave?&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}