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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (789444)	6/12/2014 2:40:34 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578331

>> iraq has never come close to being stable since GW2. I just disagree with you about it. Iraq was not ready to be abandoned and should not have been. But when Bush left office the situation was relatively stable compared with earlier. I have pretty much total recall of that time frame since my son was there at the time. When he first arrived in Iraq it was a far more dangerous place than it was by the time he left in April, 2009.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (789444)	6/12/2014 2:40:41 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578331

"The division betweens Sunni, Shia and Kurd has been ongoing since the invasion." Correction the violent schism between Shnnies and Shias is about 1400 years old and has been really bad continually since the 600s. The only times or places where there is relative stability is when a brutal tyranny, or western democracy is in place to quash one side or the other, or both. Curds have had times of peace with the others. Saladin (Salah ad Din) a Curd, was the leader of Muslims during the crusades and had a very admirable character... not much since.