"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote:
Are we installing a puppet government in Iraq?

That is not our intent, I am sure, but that will be the result if we
stay long.

How long did we occupy Germany, Japan, South Korea? And only SK had
conflicts afterward?

"puppet government"?

One that requires an alien government's intimate support and direction
to survive.

That would be half the world outside the US.


but in Germany there was.

Nothing significant or persistent;

Correct, many went to the eastern bloc and rasied hell from the other side
of the Iron Curtain.

certainly not as much as there still
is in Afghanistan.

Did we wage war in Afghanistan in the same manner we did in WW2?

In Iraq, the Iraqi's will have take on the opposition.

Indeed. But Iraqis ARE the opposition, too, with the help of all sorts
of foreign scoundrels that have flocked to Iraq since the war.

Nice lumping them all together. I thought that's what conservatives are
supposed to do?