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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (84739)	3/21/2003 7:16:05 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

After the war, do we Nation Build, or not in Iraq? Not, if the Iraqi people don't want it. its their nation not ours. Yes, we help, if they ask for help.

To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (84739)	3/21/2003 7:40:26 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<do we Nation Build, or not in Iraq?> I think the most likely scenario is, we try and fail. Iraq will end up about as democratic as Afghanistan is (or Somalia, or Lebanon, or most of the other places U.S. soldiers have gone in the last 100 years). That is, not at all democratic. And don't try to say that the Afghan government is a democracy. Our puppet won no election, and is little more than the mayor of Kabul anyway. My pessimism here, is based on our track record, and the near-total reliance on force, of the current administration.