An Analysis of Democracy
Date Submitted: 08/01/2004 22:56:39
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1165 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 4 pages (1165 words)
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On April 28, 2004 CBS's 60 Minutes aired photos depicting prisoner abuse in Iraq. These photographs illustrate US military personnel partaking in cruel and disgraceful treatment of Iraqi prisoners. During a speech at the Pentagon on May 10, 2004, while addressing the issue at of dereliction of duty among the United States military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, President Bush said, " One basic difference between democracies and dictatorships is that free countries confront such abuses openly …
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…an attempt to satisfy two of our deepest and most needed desires, to be led and to be free. Let us in this pursuit of happiness not forget the words of one of our founding fathers and first President, George Washington. "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
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