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Originally Posted by stevo
If the majority of folks wanted an islamic state they could have voted one in.
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i vehemently disagree with most, if not all, of what stevo has been saying, but everybody else has been doing a pretty good job of objectively disassembling his arguments. however, i can't let this statement go. the "iraqi" government is nothing more than a puppet for ours, and a weak one at that. there is no sense of stability in iraq, and if anything our intrusion into it (under the guise of fighting terrorism, which has only increased worldwide since then) has destabilized it even more. we should remember that even the vicious dictator Hussein outright banned any form of fundamentalist extremism in his country, doing what he could to eliminate it (just as violently as we are) himself.
in any case, it simply isn't true that the the majority could vote one in. (plus, didn't you say earlier that it *is* true that the majority wants a unified state, specifically noting that terrorists are the minority?)