When liberators become occupiers
by Christopher Preble
Cato Institute
09/20/04
Democratic Senator Zell Miller's impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention was notable on several counts. The ex-Marine seems to have been particularly incensed by the suggestion that U.S. forces in Iraq were occupiers and not liberators. He countered that American troops are never occupiers -- that they are, and can only be, liberators. That is his opinion. But his opinion doesn't matter. The opinions of the Iraqi people are all that matter...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-20-04.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Cato Institute
09/20/04
Democratic Senator Zell Miller's impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention was notable on several counts. The ex-Marine seems to have been particularly incensed by the suggestion that U.S. forces in Iraq were occupiers and not liberators. He countered that American troops are never occupiers -- that they are, and can only be, liberators. That is his opinion. But his opinion doesn't matter. The opinions of the Iraqi people are all that matter...
http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-20-04.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 20. Sep, 11:33
