[Rashputin]

A familiar pattern, someone from the target country assuring us that 90% (never 75% or 80%) of the people in the target country hate the regime. How long before this author or another is assuring us that the people will be out in the streets cheering US troops who invade and throwing flowers to them?

I, for one, need a lot more convincing that whether or not Iranians hate the regime determines whether or not they'd resist a foreign invader kicking the regime out and then hanging around as occupiers for twelve to twenty years.

JMHo

[Jim Noble]

A familiar pattern, someone from the target country assuring us that 90% (never 75% or 80%) of the people in the target country hate the regime. How long before this author or another is assuring us that the people will be out in the streets cheering US troops who invade and throwing flowers to them?

Thank you. +1000.

Never again.

[piasa]

My nephew in Iraq did get some flowers... but mostly he and his fellow Marines were given gifts of food and tea.