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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (247590)	11/7/2007 10:28:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The choices were decided on Sectarian lines and any sect that failed to vote, (as many Sunnis did) found that "not voting" had a high cost Any sect that fails to vote in this country also finds themselves without political clout. The US largely dictated the when, how and who of that election and the Iraqi "voters" faced no choices on who was on the slate of candidates they were allowed to choose from. Now you're saying that the US designed the sectarian slates? It was what the US wanted? You're out in the fever swamps now. It was of no benefit to the US, quite the contrary, and only happened because elections were called too soon. If there's one lesson out of Iraq, it's that you cannot stage democracy on the cheap, even if the people want it (and the millions who dared terrorist threats to vote did want it). You have to build institutions and security first. People in the US, who have security and build cooperative institutions almost instinctively, forget that these things don't come naturally in most other countries. But then, this isn't really about Iraq, is it?

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