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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (97871)	5/11/2003 7:46:18 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

The complaints about post-war Iraq also reflect a back-handed compliment to the supposedly miraculous American powers of civil engineering. If Iran had beaten the Iraqi army and destroyed the Iraqi regime, would anybody be expected the occupation government to be up and running smoothly a month later, with all services restored ? Algeria has been more or less dysfunctional since the French oppressors were driven out, and even descended to genuine civil war (with scant reporting of the ensuing body count in the US media compared to news from the Mideast.) It's just a hard problem, but we can rest assured the US will be blamed for everything. And while it's a moot point now, I think it's a safe prediction that left alone the Hussein regime would remain in power indefinitely, just as have Cuba, North Korea... we're still patiently waiting for those two to fall and probably will be for a long time coming.