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Not that can i would entertain virtu's provocative and gloating thread, that is worded in such a way that he's trying to act like the botched invasion/occupation is actually everything going to plan...
but...
can i just inform people, that this isn't Iraq having a democracy for the first time in it's history. Iraq had a brief period of Republican democracy in the 50s, but ofcourse oil politics, cold war machinations, a history of US/British/Soviet interferrence, and the creation of and need to protect the state of Israel all put an end to that. Luckily the US's best friends the Baath party were able to stage a revolution duirng the 60s and put an end to that democracy, and the even closer friend of the US, Saddam Hussein, was able to stage his coup in the 1970s.
But we're not supposed to talk about the cold war anymore.