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No, because they believed that there would be any difference whoever "won".

There's not much chance of Peace breaking out anytime soon. The military industrial complex has been given the green light to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of peaceful weapons to the Saudis. And the neocons in Washington keep pounding the war drums, ready to send everyone else's children over to fight for "Liberty", and to use up that old ordinance sitting in the ammo depots so we can get some fresh new high tech gadgets.