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Your original post skewed the Cold War to seem like it was all Stalin's fault. That's all I was trying to refer to when I brought up Pinochet; a fact that the rest of the world seems to realize but most Americans don't care to. This country does horrible things in the name of democracy; some can be justified, many cannot. Chomsky is generally a nut blinded by his own beliefs, but that doesn't mean that some of those aren't based on reality.
Fine, you give an example of what one ex-pat says of Iraq. But when has that been a talking point of this invasion? That was my point. This administration, which belittled the Clinton attempts at 'nation-building,' are at the practice here. But they don't even operate under the pretense of humanitarian assistance. A telling sign of their intentions is in the administration's occupation plans, which state that a US military official, installed as a temporary head of state in Iraq, would control the country's oil fields.
So how am I fooling myself?
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