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well, if the neocon's plan for iraq had worked out, had it not been so astonishingly stupid, had it really been the case that the u.s. would tweeze into the place, topple saddam hussein and then be greeted by an adoring populace who would then maybe sit around a great big campfire with the Great Conservative Liberator and agree "hey kidz let's put on a country" and then by gum there'd be a country underway and the americans could just put their arms on their collective hips and watch all this fine free activity happen "now there you go that's what we're in the liberation business for..." then questions of legitimacy never would have come up because the idea was never really to liberate iraq but rather to rewind the first gulf war and tell this whole multi-lateral based united nations-liking insufficiently nationalist for neo-conservative political purposes kind of new world order thing to Scatter because there's a New Sheriff in town and his name is hegemon and hegemon doesn't answer to anyone because, well, he's Hegemon dammit and he's got the guns and if you fuck with him he'll liberate you too....
except of course that things didn't work out.
but if they had would there be any of these problems?
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