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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (686009)	6/17/2005 3:17:18 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Looks fairly normal.... America (same as most any other nation I can think of... particularly any Democracy where, unlike Authoritarian regimes, a dictator can't stand against shifts in popular opinion for very long) seems unlikely to want to be 'bogged down' in an open-ended struggle. Especially where the costs (in blood and national treasure) are highly visible, and the benefits more illusive. Truman and LBJ & Nixon both had to deal with declining public support for third-world wars... the first two withdrew from campaigns for second terms, while the third was forced out (albeit for unrelated matters). IMO, the Sunnis and Shia & Kurds will have to go through a more active period of civil war before Iraq's future is decided.