08-20-2007, 03:50 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 11,896 Country:  Points: 39,908, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by Katczinsky 
The people of Iraq have voiced their vast majority of an opinion numerous times that has been unfavorable to us. For example, even outdated polls suggest a large majority of Iraqis favor immediate US withdraw ( Washington Post), and recently that consensus among Iraqis has been growing stronger to a point where 78% of Iraqis oppose the presence of coalition forces (and most of that figure find themselves in the "strongly opposed" category), and now a majority (51%) believe that attacks on coalition forces are "acceptable" ( BBC). | History will decide that the US invasion of Iraq was all about maintaining US hegemony for the long term, not some short term goals that Bush used to sell the war.
The US has troops in 120+ countries, ostensibly to work with their "allies", but in practice it's the 21st century way to run an empire.
You can bet there will be a substantial US force in Iraq 50 years from now, and if Iraq still has some form of democratic government by then that can only work to the US' advantage |