If/when Saddam is gone........

daveirl

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Typedef

The Bush administration made a right mess of Korean affairs.

During the Democrat era in the US a very serious move towards North/South Korean rapprochament called the "Sunshine policy" was enunciated and was bearing fruit. People were speaking of as little as five or ten years before Korean unification would take place, where 'unification' meant the North would effectively become part of a Capitalist, Western style unified Korean State.

To this end the chebol large Korean firms like Hyundai and DaeWoo began to locate industiral facilities in the North and began to bring people on 'trips' over the border.

Again, once the Bush administration got into power and started to say ostensibly stupid and provocative things about North Korea, not only did it damage US-South Korean relations, by making the South Korean President look stupid, with a rapprochament policy 'not being backed by the Americans any longer', but it also damaged a potential Korean unification under a Western style State.

Now ask yourselves, does the US administration as it exists now, really want peace in Korea or continued hostility? To me it would seem the interest groups who have spent the money to get Bush into power are only really interested in creating an international environment where Billions of dollars will have to be spent on 'defence' and it would seem to me that Korean rapprochament is one of the prices of those military interest groups foriegn policy designs.

Then again, maybe all the American propaganda is right and I'm just a conspiracy theorist, anything is possible.

Snowball

Originally posted by gandalf
Right this has been firing around my mind for the last few days.

If/when Saddam is removed either by war, assassination or exile and the Iraqi people are eventually allowed to have a democratic election. If they elect a Anti-US or Islamic extremist government what will the US do then? Will they respect their decision or will they interfere?

No, they won't. There is no way they will and all you have to do to get proof is to look at history.
The CIA wiped out the Argentinean government when after a coup by the Argentinean people placed artists and scalars as leaders of the government. The CIA then decided that the type of government was not acceptable and basically wiped them all out in a attack.
Why would the Iraqi people have a democratic election? Did they even ever use a democratic type of government?

Look at Korea. A nuclear producing and using nation (US) is telling another nuclear producing nation (Korea) that they are not allowed to use nuclear power? Who the **** do they think they are?

Clintons Cat

If/when Saddam is removed either by war, assassination or exile and the Iraqi people are eventually allowed to have a democratic election. If they elect a Anti-US or Islamic extremist government what will the US do then? Will they respect their decision or will they interfere?

My guess is they will Go for the same option as in Afganistan,Put forward their own representative for the Post of President,
ala Hamid Karzai and ask the members of a new iraqi assembly to ratify it.
the members of the new iraqi assembly will comprise of the following
Iraqi National Congress (the exiled iraqi opposition)
the pkk and kdp<edit requires google check/>(The Two main Kurdish oposition parties)
and what elements of the bat'thist party and iraqi army that are considered moderates or progressive by the US state department.