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To: frankw1900 who wrote (43574)	9/12/2002 7:27:56 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The Europeans worked up the start of a reasonable arrangement 350 years ago at Westphalia dealing with hideously complex problems of ethnicity and religion and which eventually culminated in such things as the Swiss confederation and the US constitution. There's no reason to think the Iraqis aren't capable of working up something during an interregnum of peace and untyranny. Sure they COULD, eventually, but people get impatient if things haven't changed in less than one year, never mind 350. Assuming Saddam is toppled, Iraq won't be allowed to incubate its version of democracy in its own hothouse (pardon my mixed metaphors); it'll be subject to all kinds of external influences. Nurturing democracy in Iraq after Saddam should be the business of the UN; anyone want to bet on how well they'd do? :-/