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To: E who wrote (3251)3/17/2002 4:29:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
it would allow us to create a de facto protectorate in Iraq run by handpicked political compradors
OF COURSE that's what we would do. Do we have to spell everything out for you liberals? That's the PLAN. Why else would we do it?

And, pray tell, when has a victor that actually occupied its foe NOT done so? You think the Romans didn't set up puppets in Palestine 2000 years ago? You think the British let maharajahs who wouldn't do their bidding run India?

You think this is necessarily bad? Then explain current Europe.

<i.(This scenario also would explain the manifest lack of interest on the part of the US in acquiring significant allied support in Europe for a war and occupation effort. If we do it alone, we get it all.)
The Europeans love to play holier-than-thou vis-a-vis the US. Except when THEIR ox is being gored. Then they rediscover self-interest.

It's easy to sit back and carp when you don't have to do the dirty work.
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