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Originally posted by Lebell
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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Was the Taliban legitimate?
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