>Not overtly ? Must have slept through shock and awe. Invasion != conquest. The US has not taken Iraq as its territory, or claimed the right to control its go

>Not overtly ? Must have slept through shock and awe. Invasion != conquest. The US has not taken Iraq as its territory, or claimed the right to control its government. An empire would. I said "not overtly" because there probably is a case to be made that we have actually taken control, at least to some degree, while pretending not to. Not the same thing, though--not least because, if we had conquered them, we'd be responsible for them.