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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (132658)8/15/2005 2:47:46 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793914
 
For over 30 years, they didn't have a political culture, just the rule of fear from the top.

Much like the Soviets, who had no sense of the opportunities that opened up to them, although the Eastern European countries were not as far removed so they had something to build on. Iraqis have no useful institutional memory.