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To: American Spirit who wrote (262771)	12/1/2005 3:39:13 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574349

blah blah blah. If Iraq is a stable democracy in 20 years you will have to say "well done George Bush". If not, the Iraqis will have to suffer through whatever they decide to make of themselves over the next 20 years. One thing is likely for sure. Had Saddam remained in power Iraq would have remained an authoritarian dictatorship until some outside power forced him and sons Uday/Qusay from power. Personally I say "good riddance", and would like to see the other dictatorships of the world get a similar treatment. Bush-Cheney's Iraq policy can, at best, be snatching partial dignity from the jaws of total disaster. Total disaster? You sound like Ted now, unable to allocate any responsibility for positive developments due to your hatred of the current US administration. Saddam's authoritarian regime is completely destroyed. Face it - that part of the Bush-Cheney plan has been a complete success. An unliked dictatorial regime that institutionalized discrimination of a certain minority religious group over other religious and ethnic groups has been completely OBLITERATED. Wiped off the face of the planet. That's good, not bad, regardless of your feelings about Mr. Bush. Unless you want the Saddam regime back in power, you should say "well done destroying Saddam's regime, GB". As for the rebuilding of something in place of Saddam's regime, that effort appears to have been ill prepared for and to that you should moan about GB's poor planning and poor efforts of the largest international operating since Vietnam. If GB were a CEO of a company, he would have been booted out long ago. And he will be relieved of power in 2008 anyway. But as for replacing Saddam's regime with something more desirable, that responsibility rests primarily in the hands of the Iraqi people, and they will bear the pain or benefit of whatever they are able to build. If they can live together in normal peace and harmony as 90% of the population of the world does, good for them. If they are unable to live together in normal peace and harmony and they cannot resist whatever drives them to pack explosives on their chest and kill as many fellow Iraqis as possible, then they will end up destroying themselves.