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To: Sully- who wrote (65)	11/12/2003 6:42:07 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) of 35834

....For those who remember the doomsday predictions before the war, perhaps the most encouraging news is the almost total absence of Sunni-Shiite violence, and the lack of a strong Kurdish secessionist movement. Thus far, all groups seem overwhelmingly willing to work with each other within a political framework. Even Muqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite leader who had criticized coalition forces, now calls them "guests" in the country and says that "Saddam Hussein and his followers are the enemies of Iraq, not the Americans." Third, things are looking up for the Iraqi economy. Finance Minister Kamil al-Keylani recently announced an ambitious set of economic reforms designed partly to liberalize the country's trade with the rest of the world. And Iraq now has an independent central bank for the first time. Oil production is approaching two million barrels a day - approximately pre-war levels - and there is talk of distributing the dividends from oil sales directly to Iraqi citizens, a project modeled on Alaska's Permanent Fund. Doing so would help create a middle-class nation, the kind of nation where liberal democracy thrives..... oxblog.blogspot.com

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