Reply #2: it's modern colonialism

[Wetzelbill]

Western powers have an ideology in the priveleged classes that makes them believe in their own superiority. This ideology is white supremacy. And as superior beings they have to believe that imposing their own ideas on another group of people is always the right thing. It's always progress. That's why nobody in the media or in public office, let alone Bush and the Neocons, care much about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths. That is irrelevant in the face of a some Iraqis running around with ink on their fingers because the superior ideology was creating progress, death and destruction is just a byproduct of that step toward the future.

The problem with ideologues is they are so smug and dogmatic that they can't believe something as simple as what you said in your OP. As if the whole country was just going to stand by and let someone impose their own ideology on them by force. It's ridiculous.