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Enrique

(27,461 posts)

1. i disagree

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:02 PM

Feb 2013

there was a lot of pressure on Bush to attack Iran in his second term, and he never did.

Conversely, a Democrat could very well attack Iran. The possibility of Obama doing it appears to be getting more remote, but what about the next Democratic president? What about Hillary for example?

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