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To: stockman_scott who wrote (158038)	2/14/2005 5:19:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The elections were a big mistake. Brent Scowcroft is right that they could plunge the nation into a civil war: not just Shi'ite versus Sunnis, but a three-sided struggle also involving the Kurds The new "progressive" position: anti-democracy. The Iraqi political landscape resembles Israeli politics in the sense that the electorate is severely fragmented along religious as well as ethnic and ideological lines: not only that, but in Iraq the divisions are exacerbated by the structure of the "interim" constitution, which will no doubt come in for some sharp challenges by the Shi'ite parties Is resembling Israeli politics supposed to be an example so horrible that all who see it shudder? Israel is the only functioning democracy in the Middle East! Fractious they may be, but governments are voted in, and they come, and they are voted out, and they go. Name another Middle Eastern country with that experience. If Iraqi politics manage to resemble another Israel, they will have succeeded! Of course, this is precisely what Raimondo fears the most. Successful Iraqis.

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