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To: combjelly who wrote (495138)	7/14/2009 4:31:04 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576159

There are plenty of Iranians who have experience in much better functioning democracies than what is in Iraq. They're not idiots. They recognize that Iraq is in a transition from a dictatorship to a democracy and there may be hard years in between. But they're willing to sacrifice; we've seen that. They may not quite be ready to do everything it will take, but it is building. The reality is that you guys will go to your graves believing Bush did a bad thing. Nothing that happens there will ever change your mind. I am a pretty avid reader of history. It takes decades for the results of decisions that are made to shake out. There are many decisions made, the outcomes of which simply cannot be known for decades, and frankly, I'm honest enough to admit that 50 years from now we may find the Iraq War was a mistake. But that cannot be determined now, because we don't know what will happen in Iran, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in any number of other places that will be determined in part by the events in Iraq. We can only make educated guesses based on the information that is available today. What we do know for sure is that anyone who proclaims the Iraq War to have been a failure at this point is jumping the gun. Just like Harry Reid, 3 years ago, claiming it was "LOST", only to see it turn around, you just don't know until it is over.