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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (18194)4/29/2003 9:35:18 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 89467
 
Daddy Warbucks Is Alive and Well

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by Joe Conason

www2.observer.com

<<...The prospects for instilling democracy and staunching terrorism in Iraq have dimmed since our soldiers knocked over that Saddam Hussein statue. While the American military’s triumph over the dictator’s enfeebled and ill-motivated army was pre-ordained, the political triumph of liberal democratic values is not. When American forces depart, what they leave behind may well be a Shiite theocracy, supported and influenced by the terror-masters and mullahs in Teheran.

In the meantime, American corporations will at least have minted a few billion bucks...>>