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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (130669)	4/30/2004 8:31:17 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<<Now military power is being used to democratize the world(starting with Iraq). Any bets? >> In reality all we can hope to accomplish in Iraq is to provide an adequate environment for democracy to proceed. The Iraqi's will learn that their reluctance to pay the price now to support this movement to democracy will only result in a higher price to be paid later on. It took the USA numerous decades to largely achieve the ideals presented in the Declaration of Independence and our founding documents. Most of these ideals are universal among man. Until we set at least a part of the Mideast in a direction that gradually achieves these ideals we will never have a hope of defeating the Islamicists. Iraq is an ideal and necessary target. If anyone is reading anything about the economic growth in China and India and its effects on global commodities prices you should also learn that the energy supply of the world is very precarious. So precarious that failure to protect and grow Iraqi oil exports will have a devastating impact on the globe. Getting Saddam off of his pot of black gold was necessary. He would not have needed a WMD more than his control of oil.

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