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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (105631)7/15/2003 5:54:34 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<We have set up an interim government which will appoint a constitutional commission.>

How is this a step toward freedom? Appointed people will appoint other people, who will make laws and constitutions, none of which flows from "the consent of the governed".

Not only is it a step backward, it is not the step we promised. We promised elections. That was back when we believed our own fantasy, the Myth that Iraqis want a pro-American anti-Islamic secular liberal democracy. As soon as our soldiers on the ground in Iraq figured out reality, the promise was broken, elections were cancelled, and the # of occupation troops needed was increased, from 30,000 (that's what was said before the occupation) to 150,000.

<All that would happen, in my opinion, were we to withdraw would that there would be a bloodbath>

Can't be any worse than the bloodbath that will happen if we don't withdraw.
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