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Pottery Barn rule
Reader comment on item: Saddam's Damn Dam [i.e., The Mosul Dam]
in response to reader comment: Colin Powell
Submitted by Bill Templeton (United States), Nov 9, 2007 at 16:24
As Colin Powell said, if you invade a country - no matter if the cause is just or not - it is now "yours", including all the problems explicit and hidden. Seems like the Bush administration should have taken his advice.
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| American Invasion on Iraq was the Biggest Mistake Since Vietnam [59 words] | Nadhim Mohammed | Nov 24, 2015 01:52 | 226529 | ||
| 1 |  The real victims [49 words] | dhimmi no more | Nov 24, 2015 07:17 | 226529 | |
| Exactly the truth! [255 words] | GWK | Nov 21, 2007 21:47 | 114300 | ||
| 15 meters? [46 words] | downstream | Nov 27, 2007 10:23 | 114300 | ||
| Dam problem [145 words] | always right | Nov 13, 2007 17:37 | 113645 | ||
| Must Leave Iraq [104 words] | Michael | Nov 13, 2007 16:40 | 113642 | ||
| Saddam's Damn Dam [262 words] | Kim Segar | Nov 13, 2007 14:07 | 113637 | ||
| Dang It! [331 words] | shayna | Nov 12, 2007 15:44 | 113610 | ||
| Teach the Iraqis how to sue the "German-Italian, Saudi funded Consortium" that built it? [134 words] | RPaine | Nov 11, 2007 13:28 | 113569 | ||
| Time to go [126 words] | Yuval Brandstetter MD | Nov 10, 2007 15:33 | 113548 | ||
| Prophetic Implications in the Shadow of the Dam [945 words] | M. Tovey | Nov 13, 2007 12:21 | 113548 | ||
| Preempt the conspiracy risk [329 words] | Lee M. | Nov 9, 2007 23:03 | 113533 | ||
| Noah's Ark? [53 words] | Vince M | Nov 9, 2007 13:54 | 113516 | ||
| enough [152 words] | chuck byard | Nov 9, 2007 11:50 | 113514 | ||
| Not only, but also [30 words] | Mark | Nov 12, 2007 17:33 | 113514 | ||
| "Social Work" [127 words] | M. Bouffant | Nov 9, 2007 03:08 | 113503 | ||
| Resulte of American Presence [173 words] | E. N. Mayfield, Jr. | Nov 10, 2007 03:42 | 113503 | ||
| Thou art so wrong [154 words] | Yuval Brandstetter MD | Nov 11, 2007 16:29 | 113503 | ||
| Colin Powell [31 words] | Steve J. | Nov 9, 2007 02:49 | 113502 | ||
 Pottery Barn rule [41 words] | Bill Templeton | Nov 9, 2007 16:24 | 113502 | ||
| What?? [144 words] | donvan | Nov 16, 2007 09:07 | 113502 | ||
| Damn Dam [41 words] | E. N. Mayfield, Jr. | Nov 9, 2007 02:30 | 113500 | ||
| Geology Exemplified at Its Worst [126 words] | Christopher J. Schuberth | Nov 8, 2007 22:23 | 113494 | ||
| Our New Embassy [24 words] | Kathy | Nov 8, 2007 21:42 | 113491 | ||
| Damn Dam that Damn Saddam [233 words] | Seamus MacNemi | Nov 8, 2007 19:43 | 113470 | ||
| Consequences if One Does, or One Does Not [255 words] | M. Tovey | Nov 8, 2007 17:16 | 113465 | ||
| The Germans built it - let them fix it [13 words] | Hbowman | Nov 8, 2007 16:46 | 113463 | ||
| Purpose of War [25 words] | Mike Levine | Nov 8, 2007 16:31 | 113461 | ||
| True... [114 words] | donvan | Nov 9, 2007 10:35 | 113461 | ||
| Empty the reservoir! [37 words] | Ron Kilmartin | Nov 8, 2007 15:01 | 113436 | ||
| Another example .... [105 words] | donvan | Nov 8, 2007 16:33 | 113436 | ||
| surging success? [117 words] | G.Vishvas | Nov 8, 2007 11:50 | 113430 | ||
| caught in the Iraqi-occupation dilemma? [169 words] | Charles Martel | Nov 8, 2007 10:45 | 113425 | ||
| Saddam's sad folly [247 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Nov 8, 2007 08:54 | 113418 | ||
| but why is the US there? [63 words] | roslyn esther | Nov 8, 2007 08:53 | 113417 | ||
| what's in a name? [449 words] | Drew | Nov 8, 2007 08:46 | 113415 | ||
| Did Somebody Call A Prophet From G-D? [128 words] | Seamus MacNemi | Nov 8, 2007 20:14 | 113415 | ||
| Amalekites, Saddam Hussien, and King Saul [730 words] | jennifer solis | Nov 9, 2007 15:25 | 113415 | ||
| But what was the commandment? [277 words] | Drew | Nov 15, 2007 10:19 | 113415 | ||
| Salvation is the Almighty's Gift [132 words] | jennifer solis | Nov 16, 2007 13:56 | 113415 | ||
| Saddam's Dam [171 words] | J. Gutknecht | Nov 8, 2007 08:45 | 113414 | ||
| Saddam's Damn Dam - handing over responsiblilty to avoid blame - impossible [143 words] | DW Tony Patterson | Nov 8, 2007 07:48 | 113412 | ||
| Do what we must.... [194 words] | Ron Rotem | Nov 8, 2007 07:46 | 113411 | ||
| Seeing clearly [81 words] | Mary Connor | Nov 8, 2007 06:44 | 113409 | ||
| Dam Saddam's Dam? [99 words] | Ian Campbell | Nov 8, 2007 06:07 | 113394 | ||
| Since a decade Iran and Iraq were eachothers #1 enemy! And now they are best friends? [194 words] | zari namdar | Nov 8, 2007 05:04 | 113391 | ||
| Who built it [66 words] | David W. Lincoln | Nov 7, 2007 23:19 | 113379 | ||
| When The Levee Breaks Have No Place To Run [139 words] | Richard B. | Nov 7, 2007 22:52 | 113377 | ||
| Saddam's Dam [154 words] | Donald W. Bales | Nov 7, 2007 21:20 | 113374 |
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