re: #409 engineer cat

well, naturally i’m glad that they are no longer in power. i might not even have objected that much if we had “incidentally” killed them in a missile strike

but invading iraq and “fixing” it was to me nothing more than treating the entire nation of iraq like a bunch of children who would never be able to learn how to manage their own affairs

I actually had an online discussion with someone who remarked after the invasion that the Iraqis would “stumble and scrape their knees” on the way to developing a democracy, but we would help them along. I felt it necessary to point out that they were hardly children and wouldn’t appreciate the attitude.