Re: Defeatest Howard Dean Says US Troops Can\'t Win
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No I don't think the Shiites left to themselves really want democracy. All the factions except the Kurds would like to dominate the country. But if we leave, we risk another chaotic situation occurring there like in Somalia, or 1 of the factions installing a non-democratic theocratic state like in Iran.
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I agree completely. There are no good options in Iraq right now and that is the result of massive policy failure on the part of the Bush administration. The only thing we can do is stick around and keep up hope for a bit longer, but the situation is very, very likely just to deteriorate and eventually implode. It remains to be seen whether the Iraqi people would have been better off with Saddam, in that it depends on what kind of regime eventually takes power, but it is pretty clear that the American people, in so far as our security interests are concerned, would have been a lot better served if we had stayed out to begin with.
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