> -clip-
>
> In the meantime, where does that leave Iraq? I would guess that leaves
> it headed for civil war, and the end result if the South wins, will be
> some sort of theocracy, with the Kurd population ultimately decimated.
> We, the U.S., will have to withdraw having done more harm than good, to
> put it mildly.
>
> Your larger question as to whether we should think about imposing
> democracy at all, is moot, because that is what we are thinking about
> doing, and that aim as formulated by the Bush administration is doomed
> to failure.
> -joan
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: We give the Bush administration way too much credit if we say its
> purposes with respect to Iraq are to "impose" democracy or do anything to
> improve the lives of Iraqis. The Bush administration has no such beneficent
> motive. That's a lying cover story.'
> It is true that imposing democracy is doomed to fail, but that is not what
> the Bush admin is trying to do. The Bush administration is trying to rule
> Iraq from Washington, which is the opposite of democracy. Imperialism is the
> opposite of democracy.
Yes, imperialism is the opposite of democracy. That's why I said "as
formulated by the Bush administration".
-joan
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