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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (44088)9/15/2002 10:31:33 AM
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[Iraqis'] instincts will be to obey. Like the East Germans did.

The East Germans didn't obey, they were subjugated, facing hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and tens of thousands of tanks. Remember Tiananmen? Could have easily happened in East Germany, see 1953 (Berlin), 1956 (Budapest), 1968 (Prague). But in 1989 the East Germans did a kind of Jericho in Berlin - the Wall came tumbling down, without a single shot fired.
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