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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] We didint "go rogue". A few countries with massive debts owed by the Iraquis were vocal in the UN against us and several smaller countries that have known oppression within the last century were with us along with Britan. I wont get into our motives because that's been done to death and really here is no country without plenty of shades of gray in their decisions here. Canada, France and Germany all condemned the idea of invasion. Then decreed it "a great day for freedom" once we got saddam. So it's such a "great day for freedom" that you condemned it from the start and now want to be treated as if you were in our corner all along? Fuck that noise. Bush is a moron for letting the exclusion of these countries become public knowledge when they could easily have kept it quiet and only a minor amount of indignation would have resulted instead of the press running with it and making it seem even more exclusive than is intended. If they'd been slick about it, they could have issued all the contracts with only minimal US press coverage, but theyt blew it. I think we should give all the contracts possible to the smaller countries that vocally supported us. The ones Chirac threatened with EU exclusion for siding with us. Then Britan and the US should have their share to (ha ha) offset the cost of rebuilding Iraq from the ground up. Once Iraq is stable and (hopefully) a independant country, it'll be free trade to whoever wnts to bid on whatever and all the "snubbed" countries will have a fair chance to compete in a democracy the US and Britan established. France and Germany are already dominating the EU, so their plates kinda full already anyway. Despite all the congradulations from Canada, France, Germany, Russia and, of course, the UN on capturing saddam and installing a new government, I really get the feeling it's sour grapes. They expected, -and in some ways- wanted the US and Britan to fail -and still do. Everyone wants to US to intercede in any conflict to maintain the peace through the UN but they also want the US to be completely bound by UN resolutions to take no action against our own enemies. As dumb as the policy excluding non-supportive countries is from a internatinal politicals POV, those same leaders that now want "in" would love to be able to say "I told you so" if we failed to remove saddam. Bet on it. Partially it's a anti-Bush thing and partly it's an anti-american sentiment now that we're one of the few real superpowers left. The world powers may resent our presence in the middle east, but we're actually doinf what's been idly hoped for in the UN for decades: establishing democracys and removing dictators. It's just not under their control and they dont like it one bit. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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