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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

You stay classy, SFL Cat.



An analog that's often batted around is Yugoslavia, which disintegrated in the power vacuum left behind after 1992. It took quite a while and a lot of effort to bring that back to relative piece (and this was achieved through sectarian segregation). There are probably some similarities there.

Of course, we should all remember that the Bush Admin believed Ahmed Chalabi when he told them there was a structure of Iraqi "dissidents" ready to step into the power vacuum left by Saddam's removal. Later analysis has shown that no one should have believed Chalabi, who's basically a crook, but there you go.

And to bring this back on topic, McCain's top advisor, Charlie Black, has a lobbying firm that did a lot of lobbying on behalf of Ahmed Chalabi.

Small world, eh?

Yes, but I wouldn't want to paint it.