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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (9547)	4/11/2004 1:24:46 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

After 911, Bandar and Bush smoked cigars on the Truman Balcony. Weird. saudi-us-relations.org =========== We're already said explicitly that we're spreading American style democracy to Iraq and then to the rest of the Middle East. Giving the Iraqis a government they want (whatever that is) is not in the cards. "...However, the Americans failed in Vietnam because they backed a government that had no local legitimacy. In trying to create an Iraq that suits their own culture and ideologies they are in danger of making the same error. The shoe-horning of sharp-suited operators such as Ahmed Chalabi into positions of power and the marginalisation and denigration of moderate clerics such as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a man of impeccable integrity whose word is law to millions of Iraqis, is evidence of this. If Iraq is to be remade, it has to be remade in whatever form Iraqis, not the White House, want. Any military action must be part of a broader political strategy to achieve that aim...." guardian.co.uk