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  ETproductions1 year, 5 months ago

  Good find. So many people saw this adventure through rose colored glasses. I sincerely hope I am wrong, but it may well be that Iraq is a "nation" that cannot hold together without the brutal reign of a strong-arm dictator like Saddam.

  How sad if we have sacrificed over 3200 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, we have sacrificed the moral high ground, and we have squandered the good will we had after 911, only to replace Saddam with an equally brutal dictator of a Taliban like theocracy.

  How sad that American voters believed that lack of intellect is not important in selecting a President and COmmander in Chief.

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  tehranchik1 year, 5 months ago

  In any country, getting to a democracy is a process. How could these people who have been so oppressed for the last several years understand democracy?

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    Candida1 year, 5 months ago

    They have not only been oppressed by a dictator but also in a state of war of and under sanctions for most of the past 27 years. How do you learn what democracy means under those circumstances?

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  disraeli1 year, 5 months ago

  The impetus behind the Iraq conflict came from conservative academics like Makiya and the Wolfowitz's of the world. These people, have spend their entire lives incubated like mushrooms in the comforting environment of think tanks, public and quasi public advisory boards. They debate the great questions of the day with all the earnestness of medieval theologians agonizing over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, never realizing how out of touch their plans and polemics are with the real world.

  The proof lies with the other worldly incompetence so amply demonstrated by the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

  Unfortunately for Iraq, America and the world they found in Bush a pin head who believed he danced with angels.

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