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To: Bill who wrote (133905)	8/23/2005 12:19:46 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 793782

1800 American soldiers didn't die so that Iraq could turn the clock back 600 years and oppress half its population. Well, maybe they did. Not what they had in mind, I agree. But the position we've consistently taken is that the Iraqi people must govern their own country in their own way. Back in the early days of the Iraq war, when people held up Germany and Japan post-WWII as success stories of countries rebuilding after a war, I would mention that pre-war Germany was the most advanced country on the European continent and one of the most advanced countries in the world, as was Japan. So there was a very strong base to return to, and build on. Got tired of mentioning it, but it does bear mentioning. No situation is exactly the same as any other situation unless you gloss over the details. Iraq has a different culture. I don't want to kill more American soldiers in order to attempt to turn Iraq into a European-style democracy. That's not what the US military is for, for one, and second, it won't work. We told them "draft your own Constitution" and they did.

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