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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Look, club said something stupid, and I'm just pointing out that he was wrong. Once the war was over, many countries -- including the UK -- wanted the UN to run Iraq. It's bogus to say that the UN never wanted the responsibility. It's just not true.
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I'll give you one concession, and one concession only. The UN should have been organizing a democratic government in Iraq after the war. In the future, I'll stand on your side of the internationalization debate once the shooting stops and we are looking for poll monitors, voting machines and the like.
Because, as the last 12 months has absolutely unequivocally showed, the Pentagon cannot stand the idea of a fucking democratic election in any country where they have troops.
Organizing an election there would have been a great way to bring the world back together. Seriously. It would be like that scene in Casablanca where the Baathists and terrorists start loudly singing the Horst Wessel and Humphrey Bogart gets the band to play the Morrocan National Anthem.
