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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
Bullshit!
How often does the USA support repressive totalitarianist regimes when it's in their interests? Constantly.
The USA supported the Taliban financially for years and they repressed their people far more than Saddam represses the Iraqi people. In fact, the USA's support for the mujahadeen (Islamic fundamentalists) in their struggle against the Soviet Union set the groundwork for the establishment of the Taliban in 1996.
So get down of your moral high horse and stop pretending you're going to war for the Iraqi people. It's bullshit and we both know it.
You don't fight for the freedom of others. You fight for your own economic interests.
This rhetoric is getting old and tired.
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You are correct. Every adminstration from Roosevelt to the current administration has used our military to enforce what the administration perceives to be in the national interest (which includes economic interests among other interests). The US does not wear a white hat, but a gray hat. Having said that, there is not any doubt in my mind that if, and I stress if, Iraq can be converted to a Democratic Republic the future of Iraqi's will be much better than anything they have ever experienced in their history. It will also be the beginning of the end of Principalities in the Mid-East and the Mid-East will become more secular, which is a good thing in my opinion.