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To: Pan_Yan

The US didn’t break Iraq. They gave it the best chance it could possibly have to join the modern world. At some point, though, you gotta let the kid go forward on the bike without holding the handlebars and walking alongside. If they stay on and start peddling shakily, I’ll be glad for them. If they fall, well...


10 posted on 10/19/2011 5:43:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
Right. The ultimate proof that the US strategy was correct relative to Iraq & the greater Middle East was always reliant on an estimation of the Iraqi's themselves and their ability to govern themselves.
15 posted on 10/19/2011 6:28:13 AM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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