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Old 08-26-2007, 10:53 AM   #15
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Really?

I'm guessing their are plenty of peoples throughout history who have been through similar or worse and would say it was more than a fair trade off.
I'm not saying there aren't examples, but I'd be curious to know what you see as an equative to Iraq. You've got an external power that moves in during a time of relative peace to overthrow a despot and plunge the country into a civil war that lasts for years and claims hundreds of thousands of lives. Certainly there are people who have gone through worse, but in most cases, the external force moves in to prevent bloodshed or genocide, or at the very least to aid an existing resistance movement.
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