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Considering I have no idea who Ned Lemont is, it would be very hard for me to steal his lines. As for the rest of that claptrap, it is just not doable. The US does not and never has had the power to do what you wish for. You are living in cloud cuckoo land. And if you even attempt it, you put your own citizens in grave danger and, Mike, lets say you are successful. Then someone else gets wmd and you are tapped in your useless mid east adventures, out run your supply lines and boom boom out go the lights....maybe in North Korea. Its like trying to push the toothpaste back into the tube.
However, as I predicted, you and your neocon fascists are on the run. It just took a little longer. Extremism usually fails and is failing at the moment.

"I would like to think Bush leaves us with a legacy of Iran surrounded by our military bases in Iraq and Afganistan. "

I would like to think Bush leaves us a legacy of world peace. But neither of these two scenarios are possible. The United States does not have the influence, capability or the resources to do either.