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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (130230)	4/27/2004 11:52:27 PM
From: h0db	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Nice move hawk, sidestepping your earlier gibberish about the WMD out there just waiting to be found. Of course, you can't impose democracy. God knows we had precious little of it in this country for the first 150 years of its existence, unless you happened to be a white property-owning male. But that is exactly what Bush says he will do in Iraq, a place that his never known even a proto-democracy, let alone rule of law, a market economy, a middle class, or a free press. Shutting down newspapers that criticize US policy is not exactly a great example. So let's watch Bush and the boyz "unleash" democracy in a country we understand so poorly. I'm on the side on not doing stupid things for stupid reasons. Bush's Iraq policy is a textbook example. We invaded a country for WMD that did not exist, and now we are staying either because of Powell's Pottery Barn rule, or because we hope to "unleash" democracy by handing over sovereignty to a pack of ex-pat carpetbaggers (Chalabi and the 20 thieves) to rule over a country that was destroyed not by bombing, but by a decade of US-led UN sanctions and six months of uncontrolled looting.

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