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To: Dayuhan who wrote (97779)	5/10/2003 12:23:43 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Of course the GOP and DNC do the same, but imagine the chaos if instead of two parties you had six,or twelve, none with any clear ideology beyond "us in the chair". It increases the challenge by an enormous margin.>>> Confusing to the Iraqis: What can a party "run for" or against.? Religion cant cut it, must have 3 or 4 in the country. A man who can run the country properly?. When they must have a deep mistrust of the words of any official. It will be interesting to find out who they vote into office, under what promises, since we may finally have access to news from the region No taxes to cut, and it may be necessary to impose some. That dont seem like a welcome platform. Sig

To: Dayuhan who wrote (97779)	5/10/2003 2:20:30 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually, this is a very good mix in that sense too. You have two Kurdish parties, one of which is more of a tribal leadership and the other is more of modernist. You have a Shia fundamentalist group and you have a Shia secular group with religious undertones. And you have Sunni group. It seems like the perfect mix to flesh out the ideas and lead to political maturity. > The effect of party differentiation and party development on growing democracies is something I've been studying for a long time, and given any provocation I will run off on the subject at appalling length. Sounds good to me. I am interested to hear you on this. Personally, I've never been able to fully figure out how GOP is different from DNC. Of course I am aware of how one is precieved to be more left than the other and how one is considered to be more business or religion friendly than the other. But in the end, neither can present a coherent picture of what they stand for. It is nothing remotely like the 5 factions you have in Iraq. I would have prefered to have 5 ideologically well defined parties in US instead. What do you think? Are we a single party system with two faces?