Michael McFaul

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

Rice "We didn't go to Iraq to bring democracy to Iraq, we went to Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, who we thought was reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction and who we knew had been a threat in the region. It was a security problem," https://t.co/4VhMzMF8Iu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

I just skimmed Powell's speech to the UN. There is not one word about democracy promotion. See Condi's book, Democracy. Even in a book about democracy promotion, she argues that we didn't invade to promote democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

This is wrong. Of course, George W. Bush and other regime change salespeople mentioned democracy promotion as an im… https://t.co/F0LPNp9Mrw

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated

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Michael McFaul @McFaul

I wrote a book on democracy promotion in 2009. My argument there was that paradoxically the US almost never invades a country to promote democracy (Panama is an exception), but then almost never leaves a country without trying to install democracy (1st Iraq war is an exception) — PolitiTweet.org

On this we can agree. There was a very wide disparate ideological coalition within the Bush administration supporti… https://t.co/BjrUPRRuqq

Posted Nov. 16, 2020 Hibernated