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• Friday, March 31, 2006 05:55 AM

  Real Goals

  Anyone with a brain, and a little knowledge of PNAC, can tell you exactly why they invaded Iraq: They wanted a base of operations in the M.E. to protect the dwindling oil resources and they wanted to set-up a democracy that would spread like wildfire to Iran and other countries. High falutin' ideas from such a simple bunch, ey? They had visions of MacArthur writing the new Japanese Constitution on yellow legal notebook paper. It all seemed so easy then.

  Here's the problem - unlike MacArthur, we're trying to spread a system in which we do not ourselves believe. Look at what the republicans did to Clinton when they didn't like the results of the presidential election. Look at what they did to Chavez when they didn't like the results of those elections. We all know the CIA manipulates democratic systems to force the results they want, regardless of the Party in charge. They game the system because they don't trust it. Who among us does not blanche at the thought of Iraqs electing a sharia based government complete with laws against women and other religions?

  They also don't trust We the People. They can't tell us what they're really up to and they lie to us like we were a doormat fishwife. And we, with stars in our eyes, either accept the lies or ignore them.

  Why would we expect anyone else to trust democracy if we don't?

  —CJ
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