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Originally posted by Animal: re: the two news story links Animal posted above It is clear that the next government of Iraq will be a US government. The Iraqi people will have no choice as to how their country is rebuilt.

Sadly, it appears as if no one in Washington has studied history or understands the ramifications of such a disastrous decision, should these actions become reality. If we have this strong of an influence in reconstucting the government of Iraq, then we will be fighting another war with them within another 20 years or at least having hostile relations with them for several decades.

Originally posted by Animal: If the government wants to go to war, fine they should at least have enough balls to be honest about the reasons. You're right, the war was unavoidable, not because of some perceived threat against the US or the Middle East, but because the opportunity was there.

I can agree with your first statement--the government should have the balls to state their reasoning truthfully. We certainly expect that of individual people; the same should be expected of a government.
However, I do not agree with your second statement. We didn't go to war with Iraq just to have something to do. No, I am not so naive as to think that we did it to "liberate the Iraqi people once and for all" but we did attack a perceived threat which could have become an actual threat at any time. Besides, Hussein was one of the largest roadblocks to peace in the Middle East.