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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (216135)2/3/2007 9:34:19 PM
From: neolib   of 281500
 
As an intellectual exercise I've been trying to make the point that all this blood and money and all this rhetoric about HOW to create a democracy in Iraq assumes a very big fact; that democracy in Iraq would be good thing.

It was an easy sell since after decades of "our team's number one," most of Americans immediately thought that democracy would automatically mean good things. Bush and his spinners made sure of that with jingoisms like "democratic governments don't attack their neighbors," and "free men don't engage in terrorism."

Algeria was a well known counter example prior to 2003. There was no excuse for stupidity.
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