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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (133924)	5/23/2004 4:36:04 AM
From: boris_a	Respond to of 281500

the system must remain in place where governments are held accountable to the people As a true believer in democracy, I fully agree. Because if it weren't US guns promoting decentralized privatization and land ownership for the people, "In Iraq, the Job Opportunity of a Lifetime" "Managing a $13 Billion Budget With No Experience" washingtonpost.com "... When the U.S. government went looking for people to help rebuild Iraq, they had responded to the call. They supported the war effort and President Bush. Many had strong Republican credentials. They were in their twenties or early thirties and had no foreign service experience. On that first day, Oct. 1, they knew so little about how things worked that they waited hours at the airport for a ride that was never coming. They finally discovered the shuttle bus out of the airport but got off at the wrong stop. ... "I support what we're doing, and I absolutely don't think we should pull out and not finish what we started," Greco said. Burns wasn't as confident. He said he was at the same time full of "optimism, pessimism and realism. . . . In some ways we went looking to establish an American system in Iraq, and we can never do that." Colonial adventures are a very mixed bag at least.