longboneslinger, we may be closer in our beliefs than it seems...im just not as elequant as Biggles and J2k4 in trying to put my points across.
Look at any educational, tourist or history site regarding what Iraq was like, in the 70's and 80's...
The Iraqi peope are shown as friendly and welcomig to visitors and the country as forward looking with the best Education and Health Care in the Middle East including Israel..
It falls down, and always has (always will IMHO) on how it treats Political Opposition.
Like every other country the leadership invented "enemies" to focus its populations anger when it had problems. Due to the culture in the Middle East, this leads to Killings and Torture...just like in the UK it leads to the rise of Political Movements such as the BNP.
Its only our culture that makes the politicians in our countries grow up knowing that Torture/Killings for political means is not allowed. I have no doubt that Bush, Blaire and any other political leader brought up in the same culture as the Middle East would be murderers too.
No matter which country your in, you must be "hard" and must have stabbed a lot of people in the back (metaphorically speaking) to have risen to the political top...our cultures define the limits of what is acceptable.
Creating a democracy in Iraq is a lovely Principle, however it takes more than a few months to change a culture...
It reminds me of Cuba... A Communist State that has elections (dont ask me why).
There is only one party to vote for, so you'd think there would be no turnout.... however there is a 70% turnout voting Communist.
If there comes a time that under 50% of the population vote Communist, maybe i would listen to the USA saying its sanctions are fair... when they impose those sanctions on China too...
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