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Originally Posted by powerclown
Right and do you remember what one of the main reasons Bush2 gave for doing so? Because he wanted to Spread Democracy...give them democracy he said...give them hope, give them a future, give them rule of law and representative government and theyll run out of reasons for blaming everything on the Juice and on the West and good golly miss molly look whats happening all over the middle east right now. They said the Arabs don't want democracy, they cant function in a democracy, they need a dictator to contain them and control their savage impulses. All this we're seeing right now...can be traced back to the fall of Hussein if you ask me.
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It's a nice story but I don't think it really stands up with what is happening on the ground in Iraq vs what is happening in Egypt.
I tend to side with the OP in the suggestion that Iraq would have eventually fallen of it's own accord.
Besides which, I don't believe that Bush 2's pronouncement of Spreading Democracy was anything but post-rationalization. As roachboy has pointed out, this was cooked up by the New American Century folks for lots of other reasons.