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Originally posted by Justin Oldham
If U.S. forces pulled out in total, the Iraqi regime would fall inside of two years. Nation-building takes decades. Read up on the Marshal Plan that was implemented after WW2 and you'll see what I mean. Even THAT was only a partial success.