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To: Neocon who wrote (103557)6/30/2003 12:07:14 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
You may adduce whatever you want, of course, and I'm certainly impressed by your Buckleyesque pseudo-erudition. What would seem to be the major obvious difference between Japan and Iraq would be the sometimes much ballyhooed "civil society" element. Then there's the issue of when, exactly, Japan actually emerged from single-party rule, but that's another story.