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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (586668)	6/30/2004 3:18:55 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 769667

I doubt if even that (ie Saddam's removal being good) is true. Especially if Allawi turns out to be equally repressive. For the Iraqis it will be same old same old. Old wine in a new bottle. But I do doubt if Allawi can manage to be another Saddam, even though he does appear to have the intent to be a tyrant. The toothpaste is out of the tube and cannot be put back. People are more likely to put up with a home-grown tyrant (even if he is covertly supported by outside forces) than with someone who depends day-to-day on the outside forces in ways that are too obvious. Iraq is a bloody mess and will get messier and messier with each passing year. Two, five and ten years from now, some people will still be saying why large numbers of US troops need to be stationed there. I wish for the sake of the average Iraqi that things would get better but as the saying goes -- just because people in hell wish for ice water, it doesn't mean they are going to get it.