Richard Lugar actually said...

We feel we displaced the dictator, we are trying to bring about democracy, trying to do a number of good things; and to be so resented by the population seems to us to be totally wrong.

Context

Lugar expresses frustration over the resentment towards Americans in Iraq despite their efforts for democracy.

03/23/2009

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