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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (121753)	12/17/2003 5:13:37 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

Doesn't this amount to saying that you don't care what policy America adopts now, even if it's the right one - you won't approve until we have "apologized" enough for past "mistakes"? No, it doesn't. I care about US policy (otherwise I wouldn't be here, would I?) and occasionally post about developments I like. #reply-19605171 Meantime, Bush is for democracy and human rights in Iraq and has already announced the date of turnover of political power to the Iraqis. It would be great if Powell's ambitious timetable could be followed. #reply-19344758 But even if two years pass until the first election it would well be worth waiting. As Bremer put it: Appropriations Committee Supplemental Hearing: Statement of Ambassador Paul Bremer September 22, 2003 senate.gov Some suggest we should move soon to give full sovereignty to an Iraqi government. I firmly believe that such haste would be a mistake. Iraq has spent a quarter century under a dictatorship as absolute and abusive as that of Nazi Germany. As a result, political distortions and inequities permeate the fabric of political life. No appointed government, even one as honest and dedicated as the Iraqi Governing Council, can have the legitimacy necessary to take on the difficult issues Iraqis face as they write their constitution and elect a government. The only path to full Iraqi sovereignty is through a written constitution, ratified and followed by free, democratic elections. Shortcutting the process would be dangerous.