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Unread 03-17-2003, 04:39 PM   #136
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Originally posted by TerraMex
The US has made a crusade out of promoting "democracy" in the world. And when it cant be imposed by pressure or bought, then enter covert ops.
Right on.

Now if they could only admit it openly. In the mean time, the argument is backtalk and gibborish, merely a dance around the real motive.

I also think there's a "greater-than-thou" attitude demonstrated by the US. Iraq is a dictatorship, ok, so what? Never mind that the people are mistreated, for a moment, and someone tell me why a dictatorship (in general) is (otherwise) a bad thing.

What few people realize is that the culture of these countries is intertwined with the form of government that it has: they're not as clearly seperated as they are within the US.
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