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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: JDN who wrote (611156)	8/26/2004 12:36:58 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) of 769670

JDN: There was much discussion and many articles written before the Coalition military action in Iraq warning of the possibility of what has now come to pass. Iraq began life as a cobbled together political nightmare. Like Yugoslavia, the Chezchs and the Slovaks, and other "political" nationbulding errors, there is no consistent nationalistic history, no consistent cultural or religious harmony. The shiites and the sunnis, the kurds and the sunnis, the sunnie and the shiites....have as much or more in the way of significant differences and decades old scores to settle than they do any will to pull together and build a society. I dont' know that it was a given that there was going to be a bloody power grab at many levels, but it was certainly discussed and written about before we liberated the Iraquis from Saddam. The question about what we had the right to expect is valid, but there were certainly plenty of people who worried about the two years after the end of major military activity more than they worried about the expected three months of military action. Sorry, no links...but you could check out the major speeches of J. Garofolo (vbg).

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