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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (11236)7/12/2004 9:26:50 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
Inviting in observers should do no harm. And it could do immense good for the rest of the world.

You fear that they will say something bad against the process. But if the election is fair, free and transparent they will have nothing bad to say, right? And they will learn a lesson in democracy.

Right now we are teaching Iraqis about democracy at the end of a gun barrel. What's wrong with a lesson in front of the ballot box?

Orca