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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Gordon Brown: It was Bush's fault...

In a Briton's third inquiry of the Iraq war Gordon Brown blamed the US for the difficult reconstruction .

It was one of my regrets that I wasn't able to be more successful in pushing the Americans on this issue—that the planning for reconstruction was essential, just the same as planning for the war,

Considering the sluggish, but acknowledge success that Iraq has become, it was curious that he also said:

I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-conservative proposition that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty or democracy could be conjured up



I find the last statement extremely odd, bordering on stupid, but most likely political drivel, considering history. When has liberty not been wrested from tyrants, progressives, communists, socialists, fascists, feudal lords, or any arbiter of power without the barrel of a gun? It is not in the nature of humanity to give up power willingly. WWII comes to mind,or has Gordon Brown forgotten that skirmish.

Not only is freedom gained at the barrel of a gun, but it is defended from individual and nation alike at the barrel of a gun.







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