What is happening in Iraq now has happened before

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Robert Fisk, who has been a British Middle East correspondent for 29 years, warns in his book "The great war for civilisation" that history is repeating itself. Fisk, in the Dutch TV news program Nova: "It is not just similar, it is 'fingerprint' the same".

In 1917, the UK invaded Iraq, claiming to come "not as conquerors but as liberators". After an insurrection in 1920, "the first town that was bombed was Fallujah and the next town that was laid siege to was Najaf". Then, the British army intelligence services claimed that terrorists were crossing the border from Syria.

Prime minister Lloyd George stood up in the house of commons and declared that "if British troops leave Iraq there will be civil war". The British were going to set up a democracy in Iraq. In a referendum, however, a king was 'elected'.

"They decided they would no longer use troops on the ground, it was too dangerous, they would use the Royal Air force to bomb villages from the air, which is exactly what the Americans are now doing. And eventually, <...> we left and our leaders were overthrown and the Baath party, which was a revolutionary socialist party at the time - Saddam Hussein - took over. And I'm afraid that the Iraq we are creating now is an Iraq of anarchy and chaos. And as long as we stay there, the chaos will get worse."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq

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1. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Bush, the ignoramus that he is, is repeating that story and Vietnam.

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2. Gee whiz, who'd'a thunk it. nt