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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (91083)	4/8/2003 1:42:05 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I've been talking with some people in Arab countries. It seems that those outside of Iraq are highly against this. So if there is any AQ recruiting going to happen, that is where it will be. As for the Iraqis, they are happy to see Saddam gone, but from everything I have heard, nobody is happy that the Americans are there. My guess is that there will be a 3 months to a year period that the population may stay calm. After that it depends very much on how the power is being shared. Also, if the Baath party members are prosecuted Nuremberg style, it may actually keep the public calm for a while. To guarantee good government, Machiaveli proposed the army should be made up of the local people because a government that was too corrupt to meet the people's needs would have no effective army and would soon be overthrown. I think Saddam failed to read Niccolo's book <g>. ST

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