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marginalizing Sadr
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
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.
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I'm not sure that the UN would be much more competent than the Pentagon in running elections, and I'm not sure why you say that the Pentagon cannot stand the idea of a democratic election. But I think there would be less Iraqi resistance to the occupation if they thought the UN was running the show. E.g. (and although I don't give it credence), many Iraqis think all of this is a US plot to steal their oil.
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