OBAMA: "Iraq shows us that democracy cannot simply be imposed by force" --- Take that neo-cons!

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14. It just annoys me how, during those years, it was mostly ignored.

It would always be buried in the 4th paragraph of an article, a cursory mention of a candidate or party being banned. Merely having political reading materials could lead to arrest by US forces. This was exactly what initially shook Bradley Manning, by the way. He was working against an outlawed Iraqi group who was merely protesting corruption themselves. When he questioned his superiors about it, he was told to drop it.

I thought that stuff should have been at the forefront of discussion during that sad decade.

Now we have this ridiculous and completely false narrative in the public mind to work with.