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To: sylvester80 who wrote (44745)	5/3/2004 8:22:44 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Of course this could be the result and we need to do everything possible to keep that from being the outcome. It will take courage and conviction and even then its a long shot. You are wrong about Iraqis though. There are many extremist sub-cultures within the larger society. They will use violent extreme methods anytime they think it might promote their little (or large) group in the power schema. Given the opportunity they can go from oppressed to oppressor over night. Its the only way some of them know how to exist in the world. I have seen it close up. The need to do unto others as they have done unto you is powerful. Have you ever been in a culture where the citizens are that oppressed. Do you remember a little over a year ago that Saddam go a 100% approval rating from the Iraqi people? What do you think that survey would reveal today. They were taught well by Saddam (eat or be eaten). He was very clear that it was absolutely essential for a leader to treat his people with oppressive brutality in order to succeed as a leader. The Iraqi people were raised to believe in this philosophy of government by oppressive power. Until or unless another way of life (democracy) is allowed to remain long enough for them to believe in its possibilities, nothing will change. If left to fend for themselves today, I am convinced they would look to the most powerful and ruthless to control the rest of them under some new oppressive regime. There would be the initial blood bath to kill off any and all contradictory powerful entities (like the current coalition government and its supporters). It would probably end up being a Shiite monotheistic government that would allow the Kurdish and Suni tribes to coexist (except Bathists and any one who had advocated for an independant Kurdish state). By the time it was over it might be pretty close to a genocide. It looks to me like we are backing the best option already.