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To: LindyBill who wrote (12923)	10/19/2003 12:01:06 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

Good for the courageous Arab social scientists! Still, I can't help thinking that the heavy hand of the US Army has greatly improved their chances of being listened to, and they know it. Those who worked on this report do not believe in the Iraq-war model of political change. They prefer evolution from within. Well, who wants conquest by a foreign army? But ask any of them privately if there was any other way to get rid of Saddam.

To: LindyBill who wrote (12923)	10/19/2003 1:49:47 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

The second is the Iraq war shock. Even with all the problems in Baghdad now, virtually every autocratic Arab regime is starting to prepare for the uncomfortable possibility that by 2005 Iraq will hold a free election, which will shame all those who never have. As Lawrence Summers, Harvard's president, likes to say, "One good example is worth a thousand theories." Iraq — maybe — could be that example. No domino theory here, folks. Move along... Derek