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I'm not a fan of the Bush administration, but I'm glad they got this out of the way. I guess, in retrospect, doing it early was the only way it could be done with a reasonable degree of safety. This, of course, is not the end of America in Iraq, just its military occupation. Bush still has his long-term plan of multiple U.S. embassies monitoring how our gov't loans are going to be spent rebuilding the nation, for one thing, not to mention the U.S. and other foreign industries that are setting up permanent shop. And probably a military base or two. And military supervisors training the new Iraq army.
I don't pretend to judge this list of geopolitical decisions, as I've already given up trying to figure out what is going on over there and how things are going to be all right in the long run. I'm not really a praying man, but I do hope to God that the new Iraq government makes it.
A democracy in Iraq. The mind boggles. Before, Isreal was the only democratic government in the region, for which the U.S. has poured untold billions into their coffers. I wonder what Iraq's democracy will cost us.
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