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To: KyrosL who wrote (117210)	10/19/2003 1:16:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You think Iraq now and 1945 Japan are comparable? In many ways - poor, defeated, the people brainwashed by 30 years of heavily ideological tyranny. Of course Iraq has not suffered the devastation that Japan did, in loss of men (not to Americans, anyway) and bombing. But Saddam still managed to kill a million out of a country of 25 million in his wars - not to mention the mass graves. Both had/have an educated population. Japan had ZERO history of democracy or liberalism, just like Iraq today. I'm just noting that McArthur's reconstruction of Japan was like nothing that ever would have been devised by State.