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   XPost: seattle.politics   
      
   On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:03:50 -0000, Eric da Red    
   wrote:   
      
   >> No administration, no military leadership is going to   
   >> allow or counsel that.  US credibility will be entirely demolished (as   
   >> opposed to just greatly tarnished at present).   
   >   
   >What credibility?   
      
   Currently it is the Bush administration that lacks credibility.   
   Clinton had international credibility and respect.  And Bush the   
   first. We can regain it.   
      
      
   >The US occupation has pretty consistently supressed local Iraqi   
   >efforts at self-help and self-governance.  It has treated its hand   
   >picked stooges as the upcoming legitimate government of Iraq, even   
   >though most members of this government have no local organizational   
   >support.   
      
   Because the majority of the country is Shia. And without minority   
   rights arrangements the country will be Shia dominated and likely a   
   religious state under sharia. SOmething the neo-cons could give no   
   credibility to before going in.   
      
   >The rebuilding of the economy has been turned over almost   
   >exclusively to foreign interests, replacing the Baathist crony   
   >capitalism with a different set of cronies.   
      
   Yep, which is why we have to give over control to neutrals, and give   
   most of the work to Iraqis. Imagine all this rebuilding going on and   
   yet the country has a 60% unemployment rate.   
      
   > Iraqi citizens   
   >have seen numerous examples of seeminly arbitrary violence   
   >and even theft by occupation troops.   
   >   
   >The US government refers to this as bringing freedom and democracy   
   >to Iraq.   
      
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