"We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself and to refuse to condemn Hezbollah" said H. Dean , the Democratic National Committee Chairman , http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205819,00.html.
It seems that for Howard Dean a $200 billion is too high of a price if it wasn't going to buy the Iraqi opinion too. It was not enough to invade them and to directly cause the death of more than 40,000 human lives. Now you are pretending as if they asked or voted uninamouosly for you to come and save them, to occupy their country. Cause only then Mr. Dean, would you have the right to ask them to side with you on matters of International relations. Something that even half of the Americans don't do most of the time. But it is easy to call Iraqis "Anti-semite" (which he did accuse Al-Maliki of) , as you rarely pay the price ( politically) for such sensless accusations.
That is the price that decent people have to pay to live in a polarized world today : They often have to listen to extremley arrogant, ignorant words that are often detached (in a cynical way) from everything that has to do with reality. That describes well most of the speeches related to Iraq since the plan of invasion became public in 2002.
