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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (221783)2/28/2007 8:56:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Don't you think that when a nation decides to play God and use its military might to force "regime change," it has SOME responsibility to look ahead and understand the "something in Iraq society" that might actually cause things to end up exponentially worse than before?



Nobody knew. Not even the supposed experts. Saddam ran a completely opaque police state. The CIA had no people on the ground. The same people who are bitching now, like Anthony Cordesman, were writing before the war that Iraq was a cohesive country that had existing for 80 years and would hold together. Look it up.



For instance, the State Department career diplomats and Iraq experts were warning that removing Saddam would create chaos and might lead to civil war.


Bwwaaahhhaaahhhaa! yes, I'm sure they warned of 35 other catastrophes that never came to pass as well. Our State Dept is just GREAT at 20/20 hindsight!
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