[Gondring]

Hey, we gotta go with that because we're giving them democracy! Iraq will govern itself and be a country friendly to the West (I hope) even though the majority of its citizens are muslim. Let them shine a light throughout the ME.

I have less faith in that than Bush does, but I can hope! It's not like the ME has been a very peaceful place anyway.

[Fred Nerks]

LOL! "It's not like the ME has been a very peaceful place anyway."

You mean since the arabs crossed over toward Egypt from the Arabian Peninsula around 1,500CBC and took the entire egyptian kingdom captive, plundered and looted and ruled there for more than 400 years from Thebes, and were finally driven out from the fortress city of Avaris by the first king of the Hebrews, Saul, who gathered two hundred thousand men and ten thousand footmen from Judah, and restored the kingdom of egypt to its former glory, for which he received no thanks nor recognition from the new egyptians rulers?

Peace in the ME. If we see it in our lifetimes, it will be the first time in recorded history.