Substitute Philippines for Iraq and who do you get?

"... history may safely be challenged to show a single instance in which a mesterful race such as ours, having been forced by the exigencies of war to rake possession af an alien land, has behaved to its inhabitants with the disinterested zeal for their progress that our people have shown in the Philippines. To leave the islands at this time would mean that they would fall into a welter of murderous anarchy. Such a desertion of duty on our part would be a crime against humanity."

Theodore Roosevelt, Dec 3, 1901

zima!