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To: lurqer who wrote (13614)	2/27/2003 1:38:02 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Unlike The U.S., Europe Learned From The Past America Is 'Old Europe' tompaine.com <<...In the United States, administration members like Wolfowitz, Rice and Perle, and pundits like Friedman and Kristol, have sold the President on the notion of turning Iraq into a Middle Eastern democracy experiment. But nothing about these people's educational backgrounds, political interests or personal experience promotes confidence that they know anything more about the Islamic world than Bonaparte and his men did in 1799. The fact that the vaunted, expensive United States intelligence system was not able to protect 3,000-plus Americans from being murdered en masse by a gang of Arabic-speaking criminals should give at least pause to the idea of American preparedness to invade and then administer -- democratically -- an entire Muslim country...>>