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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] [QUOTE] Maybe the whole Falkland Islands War should be revisited too. Afterall, the Brits once made the claim that the sun never sat on the British Empire. I don't recall the U.S. ever making that assertion. How many ships that have H.M.S. on them are sitting on the bottom of the south Atlantic? Surely that war was both justified and NECESSARY. How dare the Argentinians attack such a strategically placed island 200 miles from their own shores. [/QUOTE]Uh... once the sun never did set on the Empire, so that wasn't so much a claim as an actual fact. Also it was first said about the Spanish Empire anyway so it's hardly relevant. There is simply no comparison between the Falklands war and the Second Gulf War: Falklands: Brutal military dictatorship invades the sovreign territory of the United Kingdom, with no provocation. The Falklands had been British for 150 years, were won fairly and the population universally waned (and wants) to remain British. Iraq 2: Brutal military dictatorship sits around being rather poor for 10 years after being defeated, occasionally hatching crackpot plots to assassinate people and frequently verbally abusing the US. It is invaded on the basis of rather spurious evidence that it may possibly have WMD (mainly chemical weapons). The fact that it does not appear to have any reliable medium range delivery systems for chemical weapons let alone long range systems that would pose a direct threat to either the UK or US. Falklands: The French sell additional weapons to the Argentines in order to prove that they work and therefore enable them to sell more. Iraq 2: Most of the stuff the French sold the Iraqis is now broken/destroyed/defected to Iran. They don't really bother to do anything. Falklands: After the defeat of Argentine forces the military dictatorship is overthrown and the nation becomes a democracy again. Or as close to a democracy as South America gets anyway. [QUOTE] If Bush had NOT done ANYTHING to Iraq, the DemoNrats would be calling for his head for taking no action over Sept. 11. [/QUOTE]Er... Afganistan? Remember that? No proof that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11? Remember that? [QUOTE] Has anyone asked the Iraqis people "Is your life better today than it was four years ago"? [/QUOTE]Yes. From what I remember most of tham are relatively glad that Saddam is gone but are not impressed with the US for not managing to keep order in the country. Hence they can't really see what good it is having Coalition forces there. [QUOTE] When we leave, I give them less than a decade before some idiot cleric seizes power and drags them back to the seventh century mentality. [/QUOTE]Depend how long the Coalition stays and what the attitude is towards Iraq after we leave. In my view the Coalition should be prepared to be called upon to assist security forces in Iraq for at least 25 years. This is the problem with the US conception of imperialism. It doesn't involve the taking of any responsibility or any transitional stages between dictatorship and democracy. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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