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Two Years On

After two years in Iraq, what benefits has the American invasion brought? One hundred thousand dead Iraqis. Torture of detainees. A secular government replaced with an islamist one. Political divisions splintering along ethnic and religious lines. Rights of women, and minorities destroyed. Hunt for Osama bin Laden in a worse state than a year ago. World-wide terrorism as great a risk as before the war.

Supporters of the war have only one supposed benefit that the invasion of Iraq has led to - democracy in the Middle East. Presumably because a ground swell of popular protest is obviously caused by bombing a nearby country leads, rather than, say, the assassination of a popular local leader or decades of diplomatic pressure.

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