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To: geode00 who wrote (172520)10/24/2005 2:22:37 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Even if everyone put down their guns tomorrow, there's still massive Iraqi government corruption. Do you trust Chalabi? For that matter, do you trust Halliburton and Bechtel?

Of course there is.. Do you think you can really change people's behavior overnight?

There's corruption in our society. But we also have mechanisms for limiting that corruption, both legal and political.

We have a free press (or at least it used to be free) that held politicians and businessmen accountable to the masses.

The Iraqis also have a free press.. literally hundreds of newspapers, some little more than propaganda, but some with real merit.

There is nothing that people hate worse than seeing someone else getting away with being corrupt.

Of course, when it's them getting caught, they get a bit upset..

What any political/economic entity requires is accountability, and a social abhorrence for those who would use violence to intimidate or coerce those who are responsible for that accountability.

That takes time... But it will come..

Either that, or there will be civil between the major powers that be in this country and they will fight each other to the point that they are both too weak to defend themselves from the vultures waiting to tear the carcass of Iraq to shreds for their own benefit and interests.

Hawk
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