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To: BigBull who wrote (41572)	9/2/2002 3:07:40 PM
From: jcky	Respond to of 281500

This entire assumption that we are invading Iraq to liberate the Iraqis from Saddam and install a democracy is one of the most disingenuous piece of PR ploy I have seen in quite a while. It might serve its purpose to the naive, but it isn't going to take very long before the multiple obstacles to democratic reform in Iraq is exposed to the public. Unlike our occupation of Japan and Germany after WWII, the population of Iraq is very heterogenous in its composition when compared to the homogenous mindset of the Japanese or the German following WWII. Thus, the seedlings of democratic reform could center on social, political, and economic change with a common ground rather than on competing ethnicities with different goals. A better guide of whether we can responsibly set up democratic reform in Iraq is to monitor our progress in Afghanistan where there is a diversity of clans with competing political agendas. If Afghanistan turns into a political failure, expect the same in Iraq.