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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: michael97123 who wrote (40217)4/29/2004 3:19:40 AM
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Live and Let Vote

Hi Michael, here's another commentator joining us:

Live and Let Vote
By George F. Will
Thursday, April 29, 2004; Page A25
washingtonpost.com

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The results of elections, including theocratic elements, may be markedly unlovely. That may break the big hearts of those in the U.S. government who hope for a luminously liberal democracy to shame the entire Middle East into emulation, thereby justifying the war originally justified primarily by the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But pursuit of that ideal can impede achievement of something tolerable: a stable, perhaps illiberal, even authoritarian Iraq which cooperates in the war against terrorism. Call this an exit strategy.
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