>>>>It's painful to think of U.S. troops remaining there until these bozos get their act together. That could be forever.
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>>>Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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>>>How much thought have you given to the consequences of succeeding in forming a democratic Iraq?
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>>Not much.
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>Try, in your mind, just as an exercise, to eliminate your current batch of conclusions.
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>Now, open yourself to the possibilities that 15 years from now, Iraq is a real working democracy.

Define democracy....

It is in no-ones interest to have democracy in the middle east. It is far easier and more effective to make dirty deals (As the US has done in the past all too frequent) with dictators than with democracies. The Western world just want their oil and them using dollars. Nothing more. The countries themselves don't want democracy. So why push it?

It is utterly naive to think the spreading democracy was any motive for the iraq invasion. Of course the most obvious one is oil, but I came accross a much more plausible explanation:
http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html