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Originally Posted by Pete
But since a house divided works to all the bordering country's advantage - sewing the seeds of failure in Iraq helps to show the masses that US help - ain't.
"Help" is being offered from surrounding countries just to keep the pot boiling.
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Yes, I agree a successful democracy next door is the last thing these despots want, they seem to care more for maintaining regime stability than their masses, but the bell has been rung here for America's message, cooperate with our interests or share Saddam's fate. Or at least that was the message of the previous US administration.
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