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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (138899)7/5/2004 8:41:28 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It is constrained also by having a large occupying army (an army responsible for taking out its leadership) still sitting in it. By any reasonable definition the country is still occupied- I understand why you would want to say it is not. But to say it is not, while it is clearly still so, is to make everything you say suspect.

The Americans "helped" themselves to "free" Iraq- we were not invited in (a la the French, in the American revolutionary war). We had our own reasons, real and manufactured, for invading Iraq, and to compare our home grown revolution against the British, to the invasion by the US of another country to depose their leadership is intellectual dishonesty- and of course also highlights the very problem of this "regime change" we have foisted upon Iraq. Your comparison is on the same level as Reagan's calling the contras the "moral equivalent of our founding fathers".
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