Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
none of what happening in the middle east would be happening if we hadn't gone into iraq and wiped the desert with their republican gaurd.
that's bull
nothing happened after Desert Storm in 90 or 91 or whatever
nothing happened after Americans helped keep Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 80s
nothing happened after the Iran-Iraq war

What makes you think the hopeful events in Lebanon are because of the US? In my mind, they're a backlash to the assassination of the former prime minister that happened not too long ago, and all this would happen whether the US was in Iraq or not.