Reply #70: Well,

[Joe Chi Minh]

it's like this. To anyone with even the teeniest degree of political sophistication, this war was initiated and is being prosecuted for one reason and one reason alone. Imperial plunder. And the putative election: to imbue with a veneer of plausibility, the claim that the occupation was motivated by a philanthropic passion to spread freedom and democracy.

Subsumed within this is the intention to use Iraq as a testing ground for ultra-right wing capitalism, at the point of a gun. Hence the privatisations. Also, nae doot, it's a foothold and a kind of standing menace to the neighbourhood not to stand in their way; as well as a launch pad for further arbitrary invasions in pursuit of plunder.

Now, if America or the UK were to be invaded on a similar basis, I would consider anyone who helped to legitimise the invasion and occupation, (however innocently, as in the case of charities), effectively, as collaborators.

Now, I suspect that you know that what I say is true and don't really need to be told, so don't expect me to get involved in further nonsense, i.e. letting you jerk me around with dopey questions you know the answers to.