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To: carranza2 who wrote (100031)	6/3/2003 3:34:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Certain conditions--mostly economic--have to be met before democracy as we know it, or even a reasonable facsimile, can take root. > C2, India has been democratic for decades and they don't have much in the way of "economic conditions". Actually, it might be easier to get democracy going in poor places because there's nothing for the boss tribe to steal. In Iraq, there's $$trillions of oil, so the Shites, Sunnis, Kurds and Tikritis will each use the oil to have jobs for the boys. Come to think of it, the USA works like that too. Halliburton and other Bush-buddies seem to be getting the loot. The opposition [Brent Scowcroft and therefore QUALCOMM, don't - GSM was selected instead of CDMA]. Mqurice