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<blockquote data-quote="JimJ" data-source="post: 1100877" data-attributes="member: 555251">This is the Middle East. Iran and Iraq have been fighting each other since before Jesus. The Armenians and the Turks and the Azeris can&#039;t stand the sight of each other. Not to mention the Palestinians and the Israelis...I think the American public should know two big things. 1) People over there don&#039;t ever forget...and 2) They&#039;ve hated the West ever since the Crusades.If Bush had said to Congress that this was going to be a knock-down, dragged-out fight that in all probability will take longer than a presidential term (or two, or three) to finish, and prepared the American public for that, I wouldn&#039;t have as much of a problem with that. At least there&#039;s some respectability in that.But you can&#039;t with any common sense, look at what happened to the British in Iraq and say that we&#039;d be out of there in a year or two. You simply can&#039;t...unless you have no sense of history.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JimJ, post: 1100877, member: 555251"] This is the [B]Middle East.[/B] Iran and Iraq have been fighting each other since before Jesus. The Armenians and the Turks and the Azeris can't stand the sight of each other. Not to mention the Palestinians and the Israelis...I think the American public should know two big things. 1) People over there don't [I]ever[/I] forget...and 2) They've hated the West ever since the Crusades. If Bush had said to Congress that this was going to be a knock-down, dragged-out fight that in all probability will take longer than a presidential term (or two, or three) to finish, and prepared the American public for that, I wouldn't have [I]as much[/I] of a problem with that. At least there's some respectability in that. But you [I]can't[/I] with any common sense, look at what happened to the British in Iraq and say that we'd be out of there in a year or two. You simply can't...unless you have no sense of history. [/QUOTE]

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