Cyko
America and Britain both have extensive and recent histories of arming, supporting, encouraging, protecting, training, supplying, pretty nasty un-democratic countries when it suits them. They also are more than happy to sabotage democratic processes in other countries when that suits them too. So the argument about democracy and freedom doesn't stand. From the top of my head the name Mossadeq pops up as some that relevant to this situation.

Iraq is a great example, Britain was involved in supplying weapons and helping build chemical factories see The strange case of Falluja 2 Many Iraqi officer in the last gulf war had trained at Sandhurst!

Why does America not invade some of these other countries which we know to be oppressive dictatorships? How about invading a large country which has many more weapons of mass destruction than could possibly be used, and has been ripping up international treaties so that it can prevent inspections. In fact may have gone as far as making those inspections illegal.... any guesses what that country's called?

Justin