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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98400)5/16/2003 3:43:20 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I wonder what we will do if it becomes clear that a party advocating an Islamic state is going to win the first election.


Well, first off, Steve, ya gotta admit that it is not as bad, so far, as you thought it was going to be. Second, if the southern Shiites want an Islamic State, they have only got one third of the country. But the competing Clerics in the south are not allied behind one Mullah, so I don't think the other ones will let one Cleric set up a Theocracy. That southern area is really primitive.

And recognize that the country is not in as bad a shape as the Western press, ensconced in Bagdad Hotels, applying Western standards, and fed info by their former Baath "Minders," tells us it is.
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