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"U.S. conquers Iraq and imposes a dependent client state which will be called a 'democracy' --
but imperial powers quite commonly do that. They allow some degree of formal participation as long as the decisions are under control.
That's what the U.S. has done for a century, in its own domains locally; what the British did, and so on.
So, the goal would be to establish a dependent client state, with democratic forums, but keeping strictly within constraints imposed by Washington and following economic policies that it imposes and so on, and with permanent U.S. military bases, stable bases right in the heart of the world's major oil producing regions."