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To: hueyone who wrote (155093)	4/2/2003 11:46:21 AM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

yup, let's hope progress can be made, however gradually. Iraq has at least several things going for it: a solid middle class, a very high literacy rate, a strong value of education, fairly strong infrastructure, now damaged quite a bit but not totally gone, and of course the oil. The oil profits previously hijacked by saddam and the military will do a world of good when it's put to civilian use. Plus the rebuilding efort should require the employment of tens of thousands of young iraqi men and women, this alone should be a big help. You can't have real democracy without a literate polity. So this is a big hurdle that is already out of the way. They are smart and industrious people. But propobably the main thing is to separate the new govt from extreme religion / Islam; having some kind of perfect democracy is a pipe dream for the foreseeble future. Establishments of a representative, secular gov tis the fist step. That will be challenging enough.