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Just Enjoy. These are known facts, however I am still shocked everytime I watch these videos.

Mass Ignorance in the US

It is surprising that in a country that is so heavily involved in the Middle East people know so little about the geopolitics of this region. What is even more surprising is that this country that allocates so much of its resources to research allocates relatively so little to the Middle East studies.
In fact the policy of the US in the middle east has been quite childish that its outcomes were sometimes quite predictable by the arab world but not so by US analysts.
The current debate is focused basically on whether any change in the number of troops in Iraq can bring about an end to the civil war. Of course some people do not hide their complete uninterest in ending any conflict in the middle east if it is at the cost of sending more troops. But for the people who are still willing not to leave Iraq in a complete mess, I get the feeling, are overlooking an important aspect of a civil war. A civil war can not be policed. It is not something you can crush, because the more you try the more you feed the fire. Or are they still believing their own stories of insurgency or Al-Qaida versus good Iraqis story ? Everybody else is talking about a civil war. In any case the discussion ought to look for a political solution by bringing the parties in Iraq closer to each other. It is a difficult task but the Lebanese war tought us that this is the only way to get lasting peace.

Howard Dean on Al-Maliki

"We don't need to spend $200 and $300 and $500 billion dollars bringing democracy to Iraq to turn it over to people who believe Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself and to refuse to condemn Hezbollah" said H. Dean , the Democratic National Committee Chairman , http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,205819,00.html.

It seems that for Howard Dean a $200 billion is too high of a price if it wasn't going to buy the Iraqi opinion too. It was not enough to invade them and to directly cause the death of more than 40,000 human lives. Now you are pretending as if they asked or voted uninamouosly for you to come and save them, to occupy their country. Cause only then Mr. Dean, would you have the right to ask them to side with you on matters of International relations. Something that even half of the Americans don't do most of the time. But it is easy to call Iraqis "Anti-semite" (which he did accuse Al-Maliki of) , as you rarely pay the price ( politically) for such sensless accusations.

That is the price that decent people have to pay to live in a polarized world today : They often have to listen to extremley arrogant, ignorant words that are often detached (in a cynical way) from everything that has to do with reality. That describes well most of the speeches related to Iraq since the plan of invasion became public in 2002.