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To: Elroy who wrote (252807)	9/27/2005 6:32:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1575993

It's kind of hard to mesh GB's "promotion of freedom and democracy" ideas with the fact that we kicked Saddam out of Kuwait and reinstalled an unelected, undemocratic royal family (who are also dictators in their own right). There are vast differences between the situation with Kuwait vs. Iraq -- not the least of which is the fact that bringing democracy to Iraq will almost certainly trend the entire region toward democratization (as we've begun to see already), while democracy in Kuwait would likely not have had any such effect. More importantly, in the ensuing years it became clear that we could not leave Saddam in power as he had just become a chronic problem. He had to go. What he is replaced with is secondary, so long as it has democratic underpinnings.

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