Iraq - Springtime for Mid-East democracy

The BBC's Paul Reynolds takes a look at the possibility that Bush was right.

What caught my eye was this little nugget by Reynolds at the end of the piece.

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was breached, there was agitation for the reunification of Germany. The question was when this might happen.

On a visit to East Berlin, I and other correspondents met a rather dishevelled British diplomat who seemed to spend most of his time on the streets.

He predicted that East Germany would collapse within the year.

His boss the ambassador, a rather grand man who seemed to spend most of his time in the embassy, would have none of that.

Guess who was right?

Your comrades in Iraq could learn a lot from this lesson.
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