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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
removing the threat presented us by bigots and religious fanatics --
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That is
not what we are doing in Iraq. Hussein was a tinpot dictator, but he was a secular one. He tortured people for purely personal and/or political reasons. The bigots and religious fanatics are the ones who are now preparing to write sharia law into the Iraqi Constitution.
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Nondemocratic social orders are prone to wars, wars by proxy (terrorist movements, deniable with varying plausibility by the ruling circles) and extremism.
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Why, that's what the US has been doing for decades! Good point. We do need to work on improving our democracy.