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To: Ilaine who wrote (43422)	9/12/2002 2:44:40 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "I think Iraq is far more analogous to Germany and Japan than Afghanistan is." Funny that in your statistics (literacy, infant mortality rate, and GDP per capita) you left off Germany and Japan, LOL!!! If your point was to compare Iraq to Germany and Japan, you didn't make much progress. The undeniable fact is that both Germany and Japan were world powers with world class education systems and relatively high GDP per capita before they made a lot of trouble for the world. Neither Iran, Iraq nor Afghanistan comes under that classification. A better comparison for these countries would be Russia or China, which were relatively poor at the time that Communism took over. But Russia and China were only powerful due to their having fairly large percentages of the world population. They were certainly not industrial powerhouses like Germany or Japan. -- Carl