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Iraq has a democratic government and every government since the invasion has been popularly elected.

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How is that a success? Why should we care at all about that? Whether there is democracy in Iraq is not our problem, it is not a success or a benefit to us if there is.

[Zhang Fei]

[How is that a success? Why should we care at all about that? Whether there is democracy in Iraq is not our problem, it is not a success or a benefit to us if there is.]

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Lest you forget, the promotion of democracy abroad has been an abiding goal of US foreign policy for the past century. You might not agree with this policy, but that is the policy.