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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (239302)6/29/2005 4:31:12 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1572460
 
re: A local businessman who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal compared the current strict rule to life under Hussein.

"The same thing is happening now," he said. "During Saddam, we had the secret police. Now it's coming again. If you say something bad, they shoot you in the night."


Basra, a veritable paradise. This is a very real possibility for the ultimate outcome for most of Iraq, sort of a replay of Taliban/Afghanistan.

John
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