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To: i-node who wrote (922713)	2/23/2016 6:19:40 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) of 1570331

The problem, at the end of the day, was that Obama didn't understand what was at stake. I think there is little doubt he would like to have a do-over on it, and if he did we'd still have troops there today. No one understood the region before the invasion...we still don't understand the primitive mess that it is...which is precisely what made the invasion a mistake of gargantuan proportions...and because no one understood it, huge mistakes were made after the initial one of invading...disbanding the army and firing thousands of baathists by bremer created militias and is now credited with the emergence of ISIS...Mubarak tried to tell Bush that invading would unleash the gates of hell...but he knew better apparently...in fact he didn't know anything... I don't think there are very many people who dispute these assessments...democrat and republican alike. Al

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