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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 08:59 PM
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Would Saddam Houssein ever have had to face this?
a populace revolt.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:01 PM
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1. Didn't he pay all of his thugs pretty well? And didn't he gas his people hundreds and hundreds
at once?
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:01 PM
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2. Eventually....
when everyone over there found out just how weak he was through reading Wikileaks.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:05 PM
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3. I believe he would have. It would have cost less lives than the US version. n/t
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renegade000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:06 PM
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4. Well there was that whole 1991 post-war fiasco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq

Kind of why I'm not a huge fan of Obama-should-start-burning-Mubarak-in-effigy approach... unless of course we're willing to back up the Egyptians with more than just tough-talk
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