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</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Samildanach,)

in a lot of ways America has failed the Iraqi people and will continue to do so in the future. They may have removed a dictator but they have made the country into a guerilla warfare battlefield in the process.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>


Absolutely. The problem with "giving" people democracy is that it CAN'T be given. It has to be earned and learned over time. All we have liberated them into chaos.

Anyone ever wonder why Saddam had so much support? Because the brutality he handed out is a given to them. They are going to be ruled with brutality regardless. He gave them stability and that is what is hardest to find over there. Like Assad in Syria - he was the first President to remain in power longer than 5 minutes.

The Iraqi's will be under worse rule than before and in a far worse econimic shape than before - unless we continue to occupy and funnell the profits from their oil back to them - but we won't do that. We have to "pay ourselves back for the war" first.

That's ingenious. Start a pre-emptive war and then charge the people whom you've waged war against. And throw in billions of dollars for our oil compaines in the process.

Oh, wait. Don't forget to use taxpayer money to fund the whole thing to begin with, and not even give US back anything. Not even the vets. It's sick the way he cut vet benifits - the very people who are allowing his private pockets to be lined. The whole THING is sick!

We will stay only long enough to get what we want out of it, and to make it looked like we've done our best to "give them democracy"

Sick.