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<P>You call it 'harping,' and you can't point to a historical model because there isn't one that works to support your theories. Maybe what you predict will take place, but they're faith-based, and there's nothing in the past in that region to suggest that the changes you hope for will occur. I guess we'll know in a few years whether history is being made, as you hope, or repeated, as I suspect. I think we're re-writing what the English wrought in the first half of the last century.</P>
<P>If 'democratizing Iraq' was the reason for the war, then we should have had a national discussion on that very issue. Congress could have decided if we should invade another country so that they could be a democracy (I'll set aside my opinions of the arrogance of that view for now.) We could have honestly discussed the costs of such a war. We could have addressed the fact that Iraq didn't pose a threat to our security.</P>
<P>That's not the discussion we had, and that wasn't the reason we were given. Instead the administration focused on intelligence that told it what it wanted to hear, and ignored the rest. Liars or incompetents? Are either to be trusted?</P>
<P>While I'm harping ( and there I was thinking I was engaging in a dialog), do you disagree with me on my statements regarding our privatization of Iraq's economy? How much are Iraqis benefitting from our grab?</P>
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