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To: stockman_scott who wrote (60298)	12/7/2002 11:22:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

However brutal and aggressive, Saddam Hussein has also been Iraq’s most effective ruler since 1957. It was Saddam who transformed Iraq into a modern, industrialized nation with one of the Arab world’s highest standards of education and income. Washington could yet rue the day it failed to keep this Arab Stalin in power. Anybody making an argument like this has little grounds for calling anybody else cynical. Besides, it does not take a genius to note that Saddam has hardly proved a stabilizing influence in the region.