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Is it possible that we could have prevented the breakup of Iraq after we invaded it in 2003? Of course when President Kerry withdrew the troops in 2006, civil war was pretty much inevitable. But at the same time how could a 150,000 or so troops keep order when the US couldn't in Vietnam with half a million. Still we had said "Never again!" but once again like the Bosnians and the Tutsi the Sunnis were slaughtered by the tens of thousands and the rest expelled.