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Originally posted by Black Lazerus

The US has the right to do whatever it wants as long as the overall government facility has its particular say and vote about it (and that isn't even always the standard).

it's attitudes like that that make everyone hate us. you need to wake up.

I certainly don't care what the likes of France and Germany and Russia think of us. Nor Do I honestly care what any nation in the middle east thinks of us.

I would like Canada and Mexico to have okay images of us. Enough to keep them from trying to fuck with us. Hah!. But not enough to let them forget who's boss.

What 19 Saudi Arabians did in 2001 made us take the gloves off. Or it should have. No one is our friend. Or at least not everyone is going to be our friend. And we shouldn't care who is our friend. We need to portray the image that we aren't going to pussy foot around. And if our actions in Iraq make some lunatic leaders think hmmmm maybe I will give up my wmd programs. then party, bonus.

Stop worrying so much about what these people think of us. They are all scumbags if you ask me.

Common misonception. Sure Bush had hopes that a democracy would be put into their new system to benefit us. However, as much as in picking those interim leaders to set up the government would have helped that, the new government very much could have opted for communism or any such thing. And with elections within a year, the people could pretty much vote in people that hate America. It's not a puppet government in the long run. It could backfire on us. The point is in ousting Saddam and putting in this interim government who is bringing them a free election where they dont have to worry about getting their heads chopped off for voting for the 'wrong guy', we essentially gave them some idea of freedom.

That being said I think I might move to Iraq to take advantage of their flat tax.

You have to be naive if you don't think that the new govenment is anything but a puppet govement for our own selfish needs. [/quote]

Puppet government now to a degree. I don't know if you have noticed it or not though not every Iraqi loves us and if they exercise their new right to vote they can vote in folks who will hate us. What kind of puppet government will that become? WE didn't throw in a dictator like we have in the past. Open your eyes.