The interim Gov's a sham anyway. As Hobo already pointed out, the only kind of government that's going to get put into place while we occupy Iraq is a US approved one. One that does things like a proper little colony should. Regime changing and regime building is insane. The idea may be sound on paper, but how is a foreign country supposed to know the best way to run something outside the scope of their own society?
As for putting in a stable Government, I'd just like to remind everyone that Saddam was the US's idea in the first place.
And of course, if the US gov. doesn't give their constituents fake short-term fixes, how are they supposed to keep popularity up while working on real long-term ones? Not that I believe Bush considers anything past the next election day.
In response to the BBC report and a supposed minority of freedom fighters, I'm afraid that we probably aren't going to get any truly accurate data unless we're actually there. Seriously, the whole world's a "special interest group" (or minority) to Bush. Who's to say what's going on in a country that's just been raped by the powers that be?
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