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Botany

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7. very true but the overthrow Saddam allowed for much more violence .....

Reply to leftynyc (Reply #5)

Mon May 20, 2013, 11:16 AM

May 2013

Last edited Mon May 20, 2013, 11:48 AM - Edit history (1)

... to happen. Bush helped to opened up a bloody hole of sectarian violence by his ill thought
out Iraqi war. I remember Ambassador Joe Wilson* saying that Iraq had 105 different
sides and they all hate each other to some extent and that the power vacuum will lead
to all kinds of problems.

* Feb. 2003

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