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To: zonder who wrote (480889)	10/24/2003 12:46:39 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

I see since you have no fancy answers, you have to ignore the truth of my last post to you.

To: zonder who wrote (480889)	10/24/2003 1:06:14 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

Most of the turmoil is in the Sunni Triangle, which includes Baghdad. And yet the situation is sufficiently stable that the curfew has been lifted there, and there is a return to some amount of nightlife. Municipal elections covering 90% of the country were held weeks ago, and the Governing Council is running the ministries. Indeed, the Governing Council warned that it would take time to hammer out a constitution. The UN has supported reconstruction. We have appealed to various countries, and have gotten some troops and some money. Thus, a degree of internationalization is going on. Additionally, the Iraqis are increasingly taking over police functions and operating as a militia, and the Army is being reconstructed. Have a good weekend.......

To: zonder who wrote (480889)	10/24/2003 2:48:23 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

My guess is that under Saddam, the streets of Bagdad were safer than any American or European city. So What? Women are afraid to go out of their homes in many Western European cities right now. That's really not the point. The streets were safer in Moscow during Stalin than Putin. The Streets were probably safer under Tito, and Franco, than now. The streets of Pyongyang are probably safer than any city in the United States or Canada. That doesn't make Pyongyang better than San Francisco or Toronto, and it doesn't mean that the people in Pyongyang are better off than the people of San Francisco.