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But whose job is it to know Iraq? Evidently, a lot of people 'know' something? Where were the PhD Orientalists, Historians, Middle East fundis etc? There is like an expert in every field conceivable nowadays. There could not have been a lack of information. But no-one seems to have been at hand to tell the politicians any sense against venturing to Babylon, as it was known when Alexander the Great fell there. Not like they needed a PhD advisor. Was this all hinging on ...'intel'?
You named a good many almost at random, so to someone whose job it is to study the middle-East , would'nt he have immediately said that the facts, as viewed from a historical & religious perspective should be against adopting the role of villian, in a tale that is completed by the presence of one.
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