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To: geode00 who wrote (217224)	2/9/2007 5:32:41 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree. Carl has educated this board about the ebb and flow of insurgencies. And you can go back into history to find out how people react to others with foreign customs, gods and languages coming into their country. Plus of course the ethnic divisions. Go read about how "stable" Iraq was in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s. The British set this whole thing. Did it "have" to go this way? Well, if there had been an Ataturk, as there was in Turkey, maybe not. But there wasn't. Saddam was as close as they got to that. Perhaps he was educable, with a real political educator. I don't know. His sons certainly never seemed that way. He may have been set up all along, it is certainly possible. Or not. Whatever, I have no time for this right now.