"A prendre le terme dans la rigueur de l'acception, il n'a jamais existe de veritable democratie, et il n'en existera jamais".
Translation: "In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed and will never exist"
[source: John Jacques Rousseau, (The Social Contract), 1762]
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
