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To: Win Smith who wrote (41359)	9/1/2002 12:26:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

On the other side, they're willing to assert that not only will the "Democracy in Iraq" operation go off smoothly, once it happens it'll spread like wildfire through the mideast. I haven't seen such claims, though I'm sure there are politically motived statements you could point to. There always are, on any controversial issue. The main point made by Pipes or Gerecht or Rumsfield is not that a hundred flowers of democracy will suddenly bloom in Arabia, but that a dire menace will be removed, the people of Iraq will have a more tolerable regime (it's hard to imagine a less tolerable one), and the region will acquire some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for American power.