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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (74668)	7/3/2008 6:04:42 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543604

And so "shock and awe" was a fourth of July display No and the subsequent invasion was soldiers going on R&R? and No. Neither fact contradicts even slightly the claim that we are not an occupying power in Iraq. We dropped a lot of bombs on Germany, and then we invaded, and we still have soldiers there. But we aren't an occupying power in Germany. We where and occupying power in Germany. We also where an occupying power in Iraq. In both cases we turned over power/sovereignty to a local government. The main differences with Iraq is that we turned over power much more recently, and that at the time fighting continued (and still does to this day), when in the case of Germany it was before I was when my parents where children, and the fighting had ceased long before the hand over of sovereignty. But neither point is relevant to determining if we are an occupying power at this time.