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There have been several posts dealing with the psycho who posted on Family Security Matters that Bush should be a Dictator and Wipe out the Iraqis in order to colonize it with our own people. I found particularly interesting Mr. Atkinson's supposed nationality, the gentleman is British. At this moment it became clear to me where I recoginzed his line of reasoning before: The Ulster Plantation. Atkinson should look a little closer in time to truly appriciate the magnitude of his assertion.
In fairness to Mr. Atkinson, his historical precedents, while appalling are accurate. History has shown that the most effective way to stamp out an insurgency is to totally slaughter the rebellious inhabitants, and replace them with fanatical partisan colonists of one's own, determined to fight to the last. However, as a British citizen, Mr. Atkinson should be more familiar with the implications of such a decision, he need look no further than Ulster. The Ulster plantation was settled during the 17th Century by Protestant Scots, in the interests of exerting better control over Catholic Ireland. The Scots, long inured to border warfare, proved more than able to resist the Irish, but grew to equal them in fanaticism. This would come back to haunt the British in the 20th century, as the independence of the rest of Ireland left the British shackled to a virulently fanatical Ulster, who bitterly oppressed its Catholic minorities, causing continuous embarrassment to their British backers, and eventually forcing the British Army to intervene during the long years of the "Troubles." To this day, Ulster remains a lingering irritation, while relations between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland are friendly and calm, many Ulster Unionists continue to resist any reconciliation with their Catholic neighbors to this day. Forcibly colonizing Iraq would effectively link us to that colony in perpetuity, we could never leave because the colonists there would forever have a claim on our protection, and would complicate our relations with the Middle East far worse than our current support of Israel does.
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