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To: quehubo who wrote (116652)	10/12/2003 8:12:33 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 281500

The business as usual I was referring to was the decades of supporting dictators and benefiting from the oppressive regimes one way or another. I know you don't mean this but that is precisely what the US did in Iran in 1953; in Guatemala sometime in the early 50s, forget exactly the date; and in Chile in the early 70s. No doubt, if I thought for a while or did a bit of research it would be easy to come up with more. The simple truth is that people are free today in Iraq because of the will of one man, our President. Freedom's definitely not a good word to describe their present state/fate. My guess is that it's an unlikely component of their future. Many here would be glad to see Iraq fail just so that the USA would get a black eye and GW would not be reelected. Thinking its failure is likely, thinking the present Bush administration policies make that failure more likely, is certainly not wishing it would fail.

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