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Ultimately, the only thing that makes a government "legitimate" is can it take and hold power.
If the American revolutionaries had lost, they would have been hung as traitors to the crown.
If Germany had won WW2, the Vichi (sp?) govt. would have been the "legitimate" govt. of France.
And so the current government of Iraq will be "legitimate" so long as they can hold on to power, both internally and externally.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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