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Article: Bush's neo-imperialist war: our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it's a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to World War I.(George W. Bush)(Viewpoint essay)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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IN 1882 THE BRITISH OCCUPIED EGYPT. ALTHOUGH THEY claimed they would withdraw their troops, the British remained, they said, at the request of the khedive, the ruler they had installed. The U.S. Army Area Handbook aptly describes the British decision to stay:
At the outset of the occupation, the British government declared
its intention to withdraw its troops as soon as possible. This
could not be done, however, until the authority of the khedive was
restored. Eventually, the British realized that these two aims were
incompatible because the military intervention, which Khedive
Tawfiq supported and which prevented his overthrow, had undermined
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