You know the left treats the subject of post-Hitler Germany as powerful pro-war symbolism - in need of burying at any cost - as they did with PFC Lynch, the USS Lincoln landing, Todd Beamer (it was the hijackers who intentionally crashed, they'll say), and even by trying to seduce the fireman who stood atop the WTC rubble with the President's arm around him into attending the SOTU address as a guest of the Democrats. Thus, some of the confusion surrounding the history. The press is spinning stories to confuse and deceive - as usual.
In short, the major drawbacks to the American occupation in Iraq are not in Iraq. Compared to the one close example, Germany, the major defects of the Iraqi occupation are only in the pages of the American press and in the stump speeches of assorted badly-informed American candidates for President.
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