Opinion: Liberation through Occupation?
Amir Butler, executive director of the Australian Muslim Public Affairs Committee (AMPAC) asks if America is "anymore sincere in its objective of "freeing" the Middle East than the British were in "freeing" Iraq from the Turks during World War I".

The entire article is a must-read. Butler's test of US sincerity is simple. What if these new democracies elect Islamic governments committed to confrontation with Israel? Time, I guess will tell. When the British empire invaded Iraq after the Treaty of S�vres they were happy to gas the Iraqi defenders. Amazingly enough, some of the neocon babblers are putting forward the 1925 royalist constitution and the Hashemite dynasty as a solution to all Iraq's problems.

These people think they are dealing with Grand Fenwick.