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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
freedom may not be free, but it's meaningless if it's not earned. the iraqi's havent' earned it themselves. as soon as we leave, things could change. or when they have elections they could elect a hardcore islamic leader. if they as a whole don't want democracy (which in my opinion, isn't the only govt. system where people can be "free"), then we can't give it to them. our forcing our ways on them after getting rid of saddam doesn't make them free, it just means that they have foriegners calling the shots.
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So we should have just let France and Poland rot under the hand of the Third Reich because they didn't "earn" it? Sorry, I'm not buying that. And besides, I think the Iraqis heaped in mass graves would have a thing or two to say about whether or not they earned it.
It's entirely likely that the Americans would not have won the Revolutionary War without the aid of the French. Does that mean we didn't earn it?