11-10-2003, 03:31 PM
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Insane
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Originally posted by SLM3
The only legitimate overthrow of a government comes from within the state, by the people. Outside help is of course good, as long as it isn't self-serving and hypocritical. The US could have done this after GW1, but instead it chose to backout and allow Saddam to slaughter the Shiites in the South and the Kurds in the North.
The US will never allow a bottom-up reformation in Iraq as it would not have any control over it. Thus the massacres it allowed after GW1. It will, however, install a new regime from the top down, under the guise of "democratizing" the state.
Even in Afghanistan, local actors were advocating for an internal revolution to overthrow the Taliban. Of course this did not happen, it could not happen.
Considering the exiles and foreign nationalists the US has brought back to create this Iraqi council, I have to question how sincere they are concerning the people of Iraq.
I am definitely against the war in Iraq as I believe it is just another notch on the US bedpost, along the lines of its actions in South and Central America, as well as many other places.
SLM3
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