[Falconist]

I think Iraq should be put on the path to Statehood. Offering nations U.S. Statehood would be less imperialistic than altering their governments by replacing leaders through coups like we do now. In the past, we ruled by proxy through the Shah of Iran, Pinochet of Chile, Noriega of Panama to name a few. Offering Iraq statehood would enable the Iraqis to govern themselves and participate in the government of the USA as a whole.

Also, making nations states of the union will add to America's wealth and power rather than draw on it. Once we finish rebuilding Iraq, if Iraq bacme a state, it will ad 25 million to America's population and $1 trillion to the GDP. Right now, our allies nor our "colonies" pay any taxes to maintain our armed forces. With statehood, they will have to.

And I think we should make Iraq, Liberia, and Afghanistan states. I think we ought to offer statehood to every Canadian province. I think we ought to purchase Greenland from Denmark and Siberia from Russia.

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[gogeo]

I think that any new states should at least be in this hemisphere.