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I remember talking to an American friend around the start of the previous invasion of Iraq. She scoffed at the prediction that 100.000 lives might be lost to the war as anti-american propaganda. She also completely believed the american propaganda that the Iraqi population actually *wanted* this invasion, and that American troops would be greeted as liberators, and the people would rise up to overthrow the regime and the war would be done in, like, two weeks. She was wrong on every count, needless to say.
I wish I could believe people learned from history.
