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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (136907)	6/17/2004 7:56:44 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

Yes, the Quisling analogy fits well, doesn't it? But I have an even better one: Diem. Diem was the thug we put in charge of S. Vietnam for a while (later, we changed our mind, and killed him). Allawi is the State Dept. candidate, who won out over the Defense Dept.'s Chalabi. Neither has any popular support among Iraqis. Allawi has a lot of similarities with Diem. Both Allawi and Diem worked for the CIA, before being put in charge of an "independant" nation that was actually run by U.S. soldiers. Both loved killing people. Allawi is re-assembling the Baathist apparatus of fear and oppression, and will run a highly authoritarian regime, where opponents of the regime will be routinely and massively arrested without charge, held indefinitely, and tortured. Just like Diem. Diem and Chalabi did, and now Allawi will, put their relatives and clan members in many powerful and lucrative positions. In such regimes, a government job is a license to steal (and the U.S. taxpayer will, one way or another, foot the bill). Both Allawi and Diem are out of step with their nation's religion. Diem was a Catholic in a Buddhist nation. Allawi is a secular, in a devoutly Muslim nation. The Same Old Failed Policies in Iraq (by Republican Congressman Ron Paul) lewrockwell.com Who's Sovereign Now commondreams.org For a third analogy, I could do a compare-and-contrast, with today's Iraq and Manchukuo (the Japanese puppet State, set up in Manchuria pre-WW2).