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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
Bull dukie. This mess was created decades ago when the British divided up the middle east with a straight edge ruler after the fall of the ottoman empire. They gave no thought to the different cultures and tribes that they were just arbitrarily throwing together into a "country". Iraq should really be three separate countries, for example.:
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The British (and the French and the others) did the same in Africa too.
But be that as it may, Saddam kept a lid on things in his country.
Bush Sr. was smart enough to recognize that.. his son not so much.