colonization to civilize and westernize because the iraqis are savages and know nothing of civilization although they have one of the oldest. Or so you would think listening to colonials in DC and occupation apologists btw i suggest you read Tariq Ali's book Bush in Babylon: the re-colonization of Iraq he lays out iraqs rich history of resisting colonial rule in the meanwhile read this article he wrote
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1103-07.htm "Sooner or later, all foreign troops will have to leave Iraq. If they do not do so voluntarily, they will be driven out. Their continuing presence is a spur to violence. When Iraq's people regain control of their own destiny they will decide the internal structures and the external policies of their country. One can hope that this will combine democracy and social justice, a formula that has set Latin America alight but is greatly resented by the Empire. Meanwhile, Iraqis have one thing of which they can be proud and of which British and US citizens should be envious: an opposition."