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As for "conclusions", what makes you think that any puppet regime installed by the West wont inevitably be either overthrown in years to come, when public attention reverts back to its normal sheepish inward condition or else upon some newly hyped up villain elsewhere? Or perhaps, which could likely be the case given tendencies toward authrotiarianism in the part of the globe, should whatever regime succeeds Saddam continue with similar oppression on the population (without the oh so sympathetic media attention now given to the issue)?
Won't be much of a solution then will it, save that it'll be US corporate elites whose bank accounts are being filled rather than those of the Europe.
A military dictatorship under General Tommy Franks will be established under an American occupation. A local elite of traitors who serve the interests of the occupying American troops will be put in power in puppet goverments. The population of Iraq will be reduced to vassals and their natural resources will be plundered. Their infrastructure will be destroyed in the invasion in order to immiserate the population. The American humanitarians with their gullitoine will then use food as a weapon to establish themselves as masters over the population.
The world should be quite familiar with this policy. In America, NOTHING changes. This has been American policy for centuries. This is the policy America imposed upon Europe with the Morgenthau Plan. This is the policy America established in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war on Cuba and the Phillippines. This is the policy American imposed upon its own people in the aftermath of the War of Secession. LOL! How many stars on the America's own flag were coerced to joining their much beloved "union" at "gunpoint" in their supposedly "free" country? Yes, ratify this amendment or die! Sell your body to our soldiers for scraps of food. That is what American troops did in a conquered Vietnam, a conquered Europe, and a conquered American South. Thou shall be ruled from Washington DC or we shall invade your states and kill you by the hundreds of thousands! Just like in Europe, just like in Afghanistan and soon to be Iraq the United States occupied the American South in the 19th Century. The American Southern States were abolished by an imperial decree. Military dictatorships were established and "re-education" programs were put in place in order to destroy Southern Nationalism. The British did something similar with Ireland. A local elite of traitors, in the American South they were called scalawags were created. They were universally hated by Southerners for generations. Even today, a prejudice remains in the American South against the "Yankees," even among people who were able to overcome all prejudice against blacks. They ruled as puppet dictators over the American South for years. Then the American entrepenuers, the hated Yankee carpetbaggers, came in and bought up the property of the impoverished masses in the South. They made a fortune and reduced the Southern population to poverty and sharecropping for decades, both blacks and whites.
America is about to bomb Baghdad, Iraq just like it bombed Tokyo or Dresden. If need be, America will level those cities to the ground and reduce those populations to starvation just like the evangelical Yankees did to Atlanta, Georgia and Richmond, Virginia in their own country. It will continue to follow this policy perpetually into the future until it is stopped. The world will one day have to stop the madness of the American plutocracy.
Given how tangled up with Iraq the UN is at the moment, there is a slim chance of democratisation occuring more or less spontaneously. I don't believe that more military action, in addition to the aerial bombing currently going on that we hear so little about (thought that was America's response to Saddam's 'material breaches', but of course this was before they thought they could use 911 to expedite their longstanding agenda), is going to improve those adds.
So that is the challenge for our generation.
Put the same spotlight on this group of corrupt warmongers for there closets full of criminal complicities both recent and past and get our men and women back to actually defending our own land or hunting down Al Qaeda and Id be the first to hail your efforts.
What's going on now is nothing more than a corporate backed sham of the highest order.
We're still hunting Al Queda and related terrrorist groups, Clandestine. Just not so visible about it.