Originally posted by kingdavid
..... Some pages back,Rask "vowed" to do his "damndest" to make sure the Bush admin. regrets it if they did something he felt was wrong with regard to oil or something.
Now he says he knows isn't going to influence what happens over the next few weeks....so what was that about doing your damndest?...

As I ppointed out earlier, every form of government has a certain amount of disconnect between 'the will of the peolple' and what actions are taken by that government. Rask is quite right to understand that he is unable to have much influence over the events of the next few weeks. But, because government is elected, and because representatives who piss on the populace don't get re-elected, no government is going to go against public opinion on fudamental issues. Polls have shown that the American public supports military action only if it is justified. If it turns out to be a ploy to grab Iraqi oil fields, it will be a long time before any Republicans see the inside of an elected office. And you can be sure they know that.

I just know there will be all sorts of arguments about how the public could be misled, etc., etc. To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill...Democracy is a bloody mess. The only reason it is worth the effort, is that it is infinitely better than anything else!