> You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is
28 December 2004, 00:41
Interesting reference to Japan. By that I assume you mean post War Japan? Governed by a US general with forty years of experience in the far east? Governed by a US general who kept the defeated emperor on the throne? Kept the Japanese workers at their jobs, including the police, government workers, street and water workers, regardless of their political and religious affiliations? And not run by L Paul Bremer who had never lived in the mid east, did not speak the language, fired everyone he could find, and some he couldn’t, and then had no explanation for the insurrection which followed? So balance the tally sheet: Post war Japan was governed by people who knew the area, knew the people and cared something about the outcome. Post war Japan was run by the Japanese (on a day to day basis) and not by US corporations. Did Brown and Root run the water plant in Tokyo? No! Result: a brand spanking new democracy that works and a first class market based western-style economy. Iraq? Too soon to tell, but I fear it is too late to change the course that Bremer set us upon.
Interesting reference to Japan. By that I assume you mean post War Japan? Governed by a US general with forty years of experience in the far east? Governed by a US general who kept the defeated emperor on the throne? Kept the Japanese workers at their jobs, including the police, government workers, street and water workers, regardless of their political and religious affiliations? And not run by L Paul Bremer who had never lived in the mid east, did not speak the language, fired everyone he could find, and some he couldn’t, and then had no explanation for the insurrection which followed? So balance the tally sheet: Post war Japan was governed by people who knew the area, knew the people and cared something about the outcome. Post war Japan was run by the Japanese (on a day to day basis) and not by US corporations. Did Brown and Root run the water plant in Tokyo? No! Result: a brand spanking new democracy that works and a first class market based western-style economy. Iraq? Too soon to tell, but I fear it is too late to change the course that Bremer set us upon.