President Bush The Smarter Has Passed Away

[Amarok]

Oh please "occupation". Of course there had to be an occupation to ensure that the Baathists were gone for good. How else do you liberate Iraq from a democracy. Weren't Japan and Korea briefly occupied by the Americans after WWII? That was a necessary but temporary occupation to ensure that those countries became the fine, blossoming democracies that they are today.

It's still an occupation and the Iraq's did not care for it and comparing Japan too Iraqi is absurd 

Likewise, the American occupation of Iraq was not lengthy. It lasted only a couple of years. Everyone knew it wasn't a colonization. You are making it out as though America occupied Iraq like how Israel has been occupying the West Bank and Gaza for over a generation. Not that kind of occupation.

The fact there was one makes my point 

And I bet the majority of Syrians would have loved to have the Americans come in and occupy their country briefly to for the purpose of removing another brutal Baathist regime.

Why don't you go ask them if they would foreign army in their country