unpatriotized history:

The US went to attack Iraq; Iraq was not trying to attack the US.

The US did not go to Iraq to protect US citizens. Iraq was not trying to harm US citizens.

unpatriotized history:

The US is in Iraq in conquest of Iraq.

The US is not in Iraq in defense of the US.

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The US did not go to Iraq to help or protect Iraqis; the US attack harmed Iraqis, something the US had been doing for a long time.

The US wanted to conquer Iraq and benefited from doing so; it established control over Iraq, thus increasing US power.

The US had supported Iraq's government when it was killing Iraqis prior to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. After the 1991 Gulf War the US had pressured the UN to keep up the sanctions that killed many more Iraqis; during the period between the two official US wars the US had also attacked Iraq hundreds of times with airstrikes and had supported terrorists blowing things up in Iraq. Then finally in 2003 the US conquered Iraq and began a long period of US rule in which it killed any Iraqis at will, targeting especially those Iraqis who tried to fight back against the US's conquest of their country.

unpatriotized history:

The US imposed its own tyranny on the Iraqis. It conquered Iraq, killed or captured over a hundred thousand Iraqis, decided which Iraqis lived and which Iraqis were to be killed, but could not be unelected by the Iraqis.

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US troops are in the position of one who makes himself a henchman of the most powerful and dangerous actor as he attacks the weak.

The week after this text was published, the US attacked the city of Fallujah with artillery, aircraft, tanks, and thousands of troops, killing many hundreds of Iraqi citizens for daring to fight back against the US's conquest of their country. The US lost less than a hundred soldiers in this fight against a town that had no tanks, no aircraft, and no artillery. This was the second time in less than a year that the US had killed large numbers of people in Fallujah for fighting against the US's rule of their country.

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Over the past century the US has overthrown democracy, been the main foreign sponsor of dictatorships that used widespread torture, imprisonment, and killing, and/or established its own direct US tyranny (using similar violence) in many countries. In many countries the US trained, armed and sponsored these brutal dictatorships for decades. Often it was the US that set them up in the first place.

Today the US has established worldwide military domination. It has about a thousand military installations outside the US, with its military forces in about 135 countries.

The US has inserted money, favors, and violence in other countries' elections across the world for at least fifty years.

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For a very long time, the US has been attacking and killing the citizens of weak countries that can't fight back very well. In most cases these countries don't want to fight the US at all, never had any intention of being a danger to the US or its citizens, and never attacked the US. The usual pattern is that no Americans are killed by them in the US, huge numbers of them are killed in their own countries by the US, and even within their own countries the ratio of their people killed to US attackers killed is enormous; the US generally engages in one-sided massacres where the US troops kill with vastly superior weapons from positions of relative safety, not real wars between equal powers. This is even true of some of those wars where the US attackers are killed in numbers that are unusual for the US, such as in Vietnam in the mid-20th century and the Philippines at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. Even in those wars, the ratios of people killed in their own countries (while defending against Americans) to Americans killed in those other peoples' countries (while attacking them) were enormous. And of course in those wars the number of Americans killed by these other people in America was, as usual, zero.

unpatriotized history:

In Iraq in 2003 and following and Vietnam in the 1950s-1970s, the US was attacking, and the country it was attacking was not.

In Vietnam in the 1950s-1970s, the US was the aggressor who was marching across the globe gobbling up other people's countries and setting up puppet governments to do its bidding.

In Iraq in 2003 and following, the US was the aggressor who was marching across the globe gobbling up other people's countries and setting up puppet governments to do its bidding.

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US troops who went to Iraq were not defending the freedom of Americans.

Iraq was not trying to harm any US citizens.

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Prior to the 2003 US conquest of Iraq, Iraq was not supporting terror in the US, and the US was supporting terror in Iraq. The US Central Intelligence Agency was backing terrorists who were blowing things up in Iraq.

After the 2003 US conquest of Iraq, Iraq was not supporting or committing terror in the US, and the US was supporting and committing terror in Iraq.

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The US was in the position of one who attacks the weak from a position of strength and safety.

The US attacked a weak country that was not attacking it, and that had been weakened still further by UN sanctions and the destruction of certain types of weapons, including types that the US had. The US then slaughtered its nearly-defenseless troops, resistance fighters and other citizens from positions of comparative safety with very light losses to the US troops.