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Middle East

MADem

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1. This is a country that waged a war of bloody attrition with their next door neighbor for nearly a

Reply to shaayecanaan (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 03:09 AM

Jun 2012

decade. Over a million people died. Iraq started it, but Iran recouped all their lost territory and was on the offensive within two years. They could have sued for a favorable (for them) peace any time in the six years after they got the upper hand...but they didn't. They just kept grinding on.

They can get....petulant.

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Why Iran should get the bomb [View all] shaayecanaan Jun 2012 OP

This is a country that waged a war of bloody attrition with their next door neighbor for nearly a MADem Jun 2012 #1

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Apart from the fact that the people of the Middle East are human beings and don't need a horrible LeftishBrit Nov 2012 #3

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