Originally posted by dontomasso:
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The real bad actors in that region are the Saudis who have as brutal a regime as anyone, but who enjoy our good will because of their oil. We need to bring heat on them to cough up money to shore up our efforts there before we go broke trying to save these people from themselves.
The Saudis, while satisfied that Saddam is removed, would not overtly support a democratic Iraq. The Saudi royal family probably sees democracy as a direct threat to their present authority. They wouldn't want it to spread into their country, and as such they would not want to sink a fortune into democrat
