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To: i-node who wrote (794122)	7/8/2014 12:32:30 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578372

if you're not willing to inflict pain on the population generally, expecting a WWII outcome isn't reasonable. Or, even if you ARE. Some of us learned that from Vietnam. You and the Bushies apparently did not.

To: i-node who wrote (794122)	7/8/2014 12:43:05 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578372

I don't think we should have gone into Iraq in the first place. It doesn't take a genius to know that when you go into a country that's been run by one minority group for centuries or whatever and you then introduce a "democracy" that will completely flip things so that previous group will no longer have ANY power then it's just logical to assume that that group is NOT going to be thrilled about it. What if a "populist" candidate could convince everybody in the U.S. to vote for him and other candidates that would support making all the people in the U.S. give up all of their assets above the level of the assets of everyone with a median income? Don't you think there'd be a little gunplay? In a democracy that can happen.