Reply #71: You're right

[XemaSab]

The new government will be a puppet government.

War is a shitty way of solving problems.

However, while I don't think there will initially be a true democracy there, I'm not sure it's as much of a pipe dream as WMD's. I'm not sharing Bush's view of a rosy future here. I think any government there is likely to face huge problems.

I think, since the war began, we've had GIANT policy SNAFU's that have shown the people that our intentions aren't very good there.

Also, by "gut instinct," I mean a dread informed by facts that resulted in immediate conviction that going there was a terrible idea.

The facts that lead to this are that Iraq is possibly the most watched country in the world as far as WMD's, Bush's dad had a bad experience with Iraq, Saddam is a secular dictator who has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, and it was already, like Tito's Yugoslavia, an uneasy marriage of different ethnicities.