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Originally Posted by Linkster
I would have to say that he obviously doesnt know the history of Iraq - since that is the system they had up until we started meddling in their affairs back in the late 70s and 80s and got Saddam installed (with our support of course - both financially and militarily) - most of the politicians have no clue that everything we are touting about in Iraq is what we destroyed there 25 years ago - since they were a full blown democracy at that time
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I'm betting that the senator knows his history fine, he was responding to the question of what he thought would progress things in Iraq now.
Your last comment is dead-on though, GW was on TV day before yesterday saying Iraqis needed electricity... like it didn't exist there before the invasion.