Comments on: Ayad Allawi http://www.davejustus.com/2004/06/25/ayad-allawi/ None Sine Causa Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:55:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Anonymous http://www.davejustus.com/2004/06/25/ayad-allawi/#comment-44 Anonymous Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:37:00 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2004/06/25/ayad-allawi/#comment-44 So, um, when has the policy of installing a US friendly "Strongman" in a country we just took over actually worked? I mean, I can remember how Noreiaga, Pinochet, "President" Dien and the Shah worked out, but where is the counter-argument that this will really create a democratic government? Personally, I can't help but feel that we have failed again, that we are pulling out of Iraq so that Bush has a chance of winning the November election. Of course that would mean that the hundreds of thousands of causulites (mostly Iraqi conscripts) and the hundreds of American lives lost were for nothing, and we'll be invading again in twenty or thirty years. Obviously, I hope I'm wrong, --KPE So, um, when has the policy of installing a US friendly “Strongman” in a country we just took over actually worked? I mean, I can remember how Noreiaga, Pinochet, “President” Dien and the Shah worked out, but where is the counter-argument that this will really create a democratic government?

Personally, I can’t help but feel that we have failed again, that we are pulling out of Iraq so that Bush has a chance of winning the November election. Of course that would mean that the hundreds of thousands of causulites (mostly Iraqi conscripts) and the hundreds of American lives lost were for nothing, and we’ll be invading again in twenty or thirty years.

Obviously, I hope I’m wrong,

–KPE

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