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To: Dayuhan who wrote (217057)2/8/2007 10:49:07 PM
From: neolib  Respond to of 281500
 
because if those challenges had been accurately assessed there probably wouldn't have been a war in the first place.

Yes! You might note that prior to the war, the Bush admin failed to produce any serious analysis of Algeria & democracy. AFAIK, no neocon did either. A rather glaring oversight IMO.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (217057)2/8/2007 11:40:21 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
No, I think deposing Saddam was probably inevitable.

It's certainly true that the people who supported deposing Saddam had no vision of how rabidly and virulently and destructively the people in Iraq would turn on each other.

"OK, we get rid of Saddam and they start blowing each other to bits and torturing each other and in general behaving like psychos."

Doesn't seem like the type of thing one could or should predict.


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