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Opinion #1
Debater: The Wild Goose
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Whatever the war is doing for America, it's not doing much good for Iraqis.
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Some have suggested that although it is in the best interests of the Iraqis that we stay, it is better for the U.S. that we leave. Others have suggested that we should stay, despite our best interests, to help the Iraqis. Others have suggested that the best interests of America DO lie in Iraq. Let me suggest that all of these propositions are wrong. Iraq cannot get back to business until the American occupation is over. The simple fact is that the military does not know how to conduct civil administration, and it can never learn. Iraq is being saddled with a democratic government that has strong central powers, telecommunications regulation, gun control, monetary regulation, and a whole host of other boneheaded civil policies. America is attempting to create democracy from the top down, which doesn't work. Only when we leave can the natural balance of power establish itself- hopefully it's not too late for this. Whatever America's interests may be, Iraq's interests are in us leaving.
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Opinion #2
Debater: Tom
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The war was good for both america and Iraq
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I am not an American, I'm a Fleming, but I completly support the war in Iraq and because of the reason that it has brought down another dictator in the Middle East and it has promoted democracy and capitalism to another Muslim country. By saying that the war wasn't or isn't good for the Iraqi's is jus beiing an egocntrist and more nationalistic than all the White activists and Isolationists. If the Coalition's troops do leave ,now, the country would fall into a total chaotic and anarchistical civil war, what would lead to situations as in somalia in the '90 's and it would bring oil and the world economy in danger and that is also bad for leftists and "greens" like, I suppose, you are also!
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