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To: Sig who wrote (135848)	6/6/2004 9:19:40 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Respond to of 281500

>> But if they hide the womens faces, prevent their education, and keep trying to seek revenge upon the Iranians or the US they wont get very far. It is hard to know which way things will go. But Iraqis NEVER hid their womens' faces in the twentieth century. And had the highest proportion of literacy for the whole population, and especially for girls (in the middle east). I am more fearful that the US will decide that it is easier to buy the compliance of religious conservatives (with their poor, impressionable followers), than to work with the educated, liberal classes, who are not blindly loyal to any personalities. I think the US will prefer a fragmented, backward Iraq, than a unified hostile Iraq. And it can easily achieve a permanent fragmentation by bribing various faction leaders. It is not too late for the President of the US to acknowledge the lies/errors of wmd and the slander of linking Iraq to the attacks in New York. But it seems that he won't. Remember Iraq did not attack the US. The US attacked and killed many thousands, and destroyed cultural institutions, and opened the country's borders to terrorists who are killing people every day. If this president cannot admit that he made this mistake, really there will not be anything good coming out of Iraq for many years. Especially if Bush is re-elected.