let's see, Sovs invaded to crush a budding democratic movement and prop up their puppet goverment, the US to remove a brutal dictator and free iraqis from tyranny. yeah, quite similar...
Well, it would be their first vote under the new constitution, but it's certainly not the same as the American struggle unless you think the French came and liberated the Brits and gave us freedom.
A super-power invading a small country to quell a perceived threat, and set up a government it feels would be friendly to secure its own security. You don't see the resemblance? Like I said, not a real close analogy, but the closest historical example I could think of. After your WW2 analogy I believe you should steer clear of historical arguments.
Sorry but that is not anywhere near the truth. Go read it. BTW, isn't the issue here of writing current events rather than re-writing history?
Whatever the case may be - if the elections are successful at engaging Sunnis and the insurgency begins to wan.... Bush gets credit. Afterall, this was his war - if he was going to be damned for it's failure, then he should get credit if it works out at the end. Amazingly, who would have seen Iraq becoming a stable democracy??? It's not guarantee - but the situation has gone from hopeless to hopeful.
All I hope for is that they are successful so we can get the **** out. But to equate it to America's struggle for independence is ludicrous.
You can relate anything to anything. It's just rhetoric. Who cares about that stuff - at the end of the day, if Iraq becomes a stable democracy it would be the first victory for the U.S. in a very long time.
I'm sure the tens of thousands of dead ones begrudge a bit. Oh wait, they don't, they're dead. Oh well, you can't make a civil war torn pro-Iranian satellite state omelet without breaking a few eggs!
People under the control of a ruler for life are helped to freedom by a superpower. Yep, that pretty much sounds like the American Revolution to me. We are just taking on much more of the burden than the French did, which is not surprising, because they were the French.
