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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (115647)	9/25/2003 12:10:21 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) of 281500

We invaded Iraq to rid ourselves of the threat from Iraqi WMD -- only there were none. We had no business invading Iraq, any more than Iraq had any business invading Kuwait. Now that we have invaded and occupy the country, people of your "ilk", as you are fond of saying, tell us it does not matter that there were no WMDs and no threat -- we really invaded Iraq for entirely different reasons as part of some grand neocon "scheme" hatched years before 9/11 where we would set up forward military bases in Iraq to threaten yet more countries with "regime change". And why do this? Because you and a handful of likeminded people think it would be great fun to have an American empire. Play god with your own children if you like, but don't send the sons and daughters of other people to Iraq and to other mid-east countries to entertain your fantasies of the American empire. We are not liberators -- we conquered Iraq, and in fact we can't even seem to do that. The price of conquest is steep, and the rate of escalation is beyond the means of even the United States. If you think other countries will foot the bill for your empire -- think again.

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