Reply to Slag
The main perspective from the view of the US administration and its Big Business allies has always been about the control of oil and other strategic resources together with the maintenance of US military and economic interests.
The democratic wishes of the people of Iraq or indeed other regions in the world have not come into it at all.
We have seen this in the long nightmare in Iraq but also in countries like Chile,Indonesia Vietnam and Nicaragua where governments have unleashed barbarism to support local killers and protect US business interests.
There has been plenty of opposition from inside America itself to these policies which we have seen in for example the anti war movements against the Vietnam war and the current US occupation of Iraq.
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