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Originally posted by sgtclub
Who is trying to fit what into their ideological narrative? Or have you forgotten that we are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government?
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I don't have an ideology. I believe in facts. You're the one who is trying to suggest that there's a connection between what's happening in Iraq and Lebanon. They're both Arab countries, so there must be a simple explanation tying it all together, right?
"Have I forgotten that we are in Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government?" Only a lawyer could say something so obtuse. We are in Iraq because we invaded -- kind of the opposite of a "request" of the Iraqi government, actually -- and because we haven't left yet. Notwithstanding an election in which the party getting the most votes ran on a platform that we should leave, we have not left yet because we disarmed the military and touched off an insurgency that the government is powerless to stop.
It's touching that you place legitimacy in the "request" of the Iraqi government that we stay, but have you forgotten that that government was appointed at our behest, not elected, and that it did poorly in the last elections? If a government with that kind of legitimacy invited us into Lebanon, there'd be a civil war.
