Since we have already had reports of groups from other Arab nations crossing the border to join in the “good fight”, that’s one working definition of “outside parties”.**
Your opinion is worth about as much as the one in my previous post, when I said “If the Iraqis genuinely turn out to want a dictatorship of anti-U.S. mullahs, then things will get interesting.”
It might be nice to see what type of government emerges before judging it to be a puppet state. Otherwise you come off sounding like your foreign policy outlook is derived from Groucho Marx in Horsefeathers*:
“I don’t know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway.
Whatever it is, I’m against it.” **
Nice Randall Terry impression.
*come to think of it, I’d take him over Donald Rumsfeld.
And my point was that the chances of any anti-US Iraqis even getting on the ballots are next to nil – anyone running for office whom Centcom deems to be a danger will simply be classified as a outside party/terror group/hate-filled religious fundamentalist, and be pounced upon by the US forces. The “freedom” to choose from American-approved candidates is no freedom at all.
Though I’ll agree that Groucho Marx would be far more preferable to Donald Rumsfeld.
