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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Why do you say this? Has someone with a lot of knowledge of North Korea indicated they think this?
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I'm just guessing that people who regularly live through famines, have assorted gulags polka dotting their country, and know life is far better in a place as close as SK, would be receptive.
Iraq was not as bad a place to live as NK. Hussein was a despot, but there was some real representative democracy (of a sort), Iraqis were free to travel, they could read foreign news, and there was a functioning economy. Also, a big part of the reason we were not greeted positively in Iraq was our own stupid decision to alienate the Baathists and dismantle the military. Had Paul Bremmer not made awful those decisions at the outset, post-invasion Iraq may have moved forward on a much different trajectory.
But yeah -- we'd probably fuck up a NK invasion as well, and find some way to make them hate us.
