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To: neolib who wrote (153837)	12/11/2004 1:27:26 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The goals are OK, the methods stink. With a Saddam Hussein, no approach except the big stick has any chance of success.

To: neolib who wrote (153837)	12/13/2004 10:47:14 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

I think the problem with "alien" democracy in Iraq might be better viewed if say (and please don't comment on the impossibility of it!) the UN blue helmets took over the USA and tried to force equality for women and gays in all religious institutions in the country We aren't trying to force their religious institutions to change. We aren't forcing gay marriage on them or making them stop polygamy, or doing anything similar to that. The few rules we did make can be changed by the current interim government or the upcoming elected government. About the only things that we are insisting is that they don't support terrorism or have WMD programs, or invade their neighbors, and that the new government be elected rather then imposed by Baathists with guns or armed radical Islamic fundamentalists. I'm no fan of the UN, but if the US was ruled by someone like Saddam, and he had a firm grip on government, and the UN came in and freed us I would be happy about it. Tim