Examining a similar situation that bush got us into. Well, first and foremost, i would just say george w. Bush did get us in in a dramatic way into this caldron. And for republicans not to admit that is wrong. And so thats number one. We should not have jumped in with the United States military with the huge occupation force into iraq to change the situation. I would have certainly supported at that time arming the kurds against Saddam Hussein as im supportive now that you have to make sure very well that the people youre working with are, number one, do not have a long term, how do you say, a long term reason to hate you and to not like you and thus in the end they will end up being your enemy. And that was true in a number of areas in this region. So thats one of the reasons why i think we should rely on the kurds who have a long history of being friends with the United States. There are other forces in play. There are friends that we should stick with. Like israel. And there are for
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