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To: greenspirit who wrote (91995)	4/10/2003 9:20:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Another problem with that point of view is it's simply not true. The people of Aghanistan chose their leader. It was a difficult process which took a lot of diplomacy to achieve. The same model seems a reasonable course of action in regard to Iraq. Michael, I think it's a stretch to say "the people of Afghanistan chose their leader." He was selected by a group of tribal elders or warlords, whatever you wish to call them (I think there was only one woman in the room) whose selection, in turn, was hardly democratic. I'm not arguing that was a pragmatically bad way to do it. I gather it was a good one. But it could hardly be called "the people choosing."