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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (91852)	4/10/2003 12:56:17 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 281500

They will be able to hand out jobs, favors, access, aid, patronage. Loyalty will be based on tribe, religion, ethnicity. They will build and defend little local fiefdoms, these StrongMen, who will hold total authority over a people with zero democratic tradition. They may go through the motions of democracy afterward, holding an election which will be managed so that the Iraqis currently being chosen by foreign soldiers, all stay in power. If it happens that way, it will be about as democratic as the elections regularly held in the Soviet Union. I dont think it would be too bad if we could get Iraq to run about the same way as Chicago does ;-).... Slacker@liberatechicagofromDaley.com

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