Akvod on 17 March 2010
Ok, ok, fuck history and all that shit.
THEORETICALLY, is it POSSIBLE for a democracy to go to war? Of course it is. If there was a pure democracy and everyone in the state voted for war, you would have one.
If one is arguing that democratic states are well off economically, blah blah blah, and are therefore less inclined to go to war, that is simply saying that there is an association with Democracies with those qualities (Are there any simple/broad qualities that can stop a phenomenon that has recurred for thousands of years), not that Democracy actually prevents it.
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
