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To: RMF who wrote (48770)	7/16/2013 11:55:51 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Recommended By lightshipsailor Paul Smith Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

It is interesting to me that the ages-old battles between Sunni and Shia are insurmountable, while every president seems to want to take his turn at bringing peace between the Palestinians and Jews. It took decades and a bloody war for the US to work out its differences after the Constitution was created. And in fact, the people who created the Constitution were well aware of the problem but realized, brilliantly, that there was no possible way to deal with those differences at the time. I'm not nearly so quick to write off Iraq as most people are. There is no evidence, at all, that Iran was "helped" militarily by the war, other than Saddam was no longer in power (which is not a minimal thing). Perhaps in 50 years those who are still around will say, "Man, what a blunder that was." But those who proclaim it today do not have enough information on which to base such a statement.

To: RMF who wrote (48770)	7/17/2013 12:54:45 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

The Republican's always want to balance the budget on the dems watch, but never their own. They spend money like drunken soldiers when they are in power and then when the dems take over and want to help the poor, there are large deficits and so they want to cut back. And the fact the pubs cause the deficits to begin with never seems to be realized by lots of people. Bush walked into office saw lots of money laying around and couldn't wait to get it to his social class. The rich. The aristocracy.