all of which, if true, would come as no surprize to me, as I posted last year:

User Name: Metchosin

Thread Name: BS: Should Saddam comply with Resolutions? (126* d)

Posted: 19 Mar 03

"Troll, your idea of the US "setting up a democracy" in Iraq or Afghanistan, for that matter, has about as much chance as a snowball in hell. Democracy is not a suitcase. The best the US can hope for is to put in another dictator and be satisfied that at least he is your son of a bitch, rather than his own. I wish it wasn't so…but…"