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To: RetiredNow who wrote (214430)	1/8/2005 10:56:54 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) of 1572559

>However, what if Iraq bucks the odds and manages to become a Democracy? Will it have been worth it then? 10 or 15 years from now I'm lukewarm on the cause. The whole "domino effect of putting a democracy in the Middle East" thing may be right, but it may not be -- Turkey's been a democracy next to Iraq for many years (though not an Arab one), and it hasn't had any influence on any of the other countries around it. I'm not sure that "democratizing" one more Muslim state out of 57 (58 if you include that Palestinians) will have much of an effect. It might've been worth a shot if it were done right. The problem is that we have an administration in place that was both incompetent and not politically able to provide the troops that were really necessary, and as a result, we've dug such a deep hole there that I firmly believe that we can NEVER win now, and given the way we went in there, I predicted in early '03 that that would be the case. Given that, I've thought all along that we've been throwing the lives of our soldiers away, and in a court of law, that would qualify as criminally negligent homicide on a grand scale. Isn't that something to curse about? -Z

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