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the importance of appearances .....US troops in Iraq are not an occupying army. At least not technically: not legally. Coalition troops are there at the invitation of the Iraqi government & that's important because being an occupier brings with it a host of rights & responsibilities under international law. Yes, we used a false premise to launch a war of aggression against a defenceless country, bombed their cities for days, dropped in a few hundred thousand troops, killed maybe 40,000 members of their security forces, murdered their head of state after a show trial in front of a kangaroo court, flew in a bunch of exiles who had lived abroad for the past couple of decades & used them as the back-bone of a government that exists only within the protected confines of the US-controlled Green Zone, but, hey, they invited us! Ain't neo-colonialism grand?
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