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Originally Posted by scandium
...As to what I said about Bremer, I don't consider that reaching. He was appointed overseer of Iraq for a little over a year....
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Of course he was appointed. How else could an occupation government possibly function? If you think things over there are a mess now, what do you think the country would have been like if he hadn't been? No temporary system is perfect, but how else would you suggest that the infrastructure of a country ruled for years and years by a ruthless man be properly restored? How would you provide electricity? Plumbing? Communications? Transportation? Further, what would the outcome have been if free elections had been held within days or hours after Saddam's statue was pulled down? Do you think they would have been fair? Orderly? Non-violent? How many people would have understood that they could vote? Let alone done so? Why should the occupation of Iraq play out differently from any other post-war occupation?
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...Order 2 that dissolved the Iraqi army.
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More sophistry. As usual you wield a half-truth.
Saddam's army was dissolved. You conveniently leave out that the Iraqi Army has been rebuilding ever since.
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International law also stipulates that an occupying power is required to respect existing laws...
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Respect existing laws of the tyrant we went there to remove?