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Originally Posted by Kevsh
It's hard to teach democracry to people after carpet bombing them during so-called "raids to find insurgents" and standing on a battleship, waving flags, celebrating "mission accomplished" when you've just sent a country into the dark ages.
Seriously, anyone who believes this war was about spreading democracy is extremely ignorant. Any Washington think tank could've concluded it was an impossible wet dream long ago.
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Yup, and what I really like is how most peoples idea of history only encompasses 10 years. I think all the posters in this thread that made mention of democracy not taking hold in the Middle East should look at what happened when a triving democracy did exist. I know no one will want to look it up but in case you do you can start
here.