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To: steve dietrich who wrote (181244)	2/6/2006 11:20:07 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

All we have done is make it possible for the oppressed to be the opressors. Real progress. I guess real progress in your eyes is totalitarian dictatorship, eh? What do you expect? There's a ton of money at stake in Iraq via their oil production. That's economic and political power, both for those who once possessed and benefitted from it, and those who want it and see no reason to share it with their former oppressors. Of course, no one considers the fact that Iraq has made as many steps towards democratic reforms as being progress... Y'all expect everything to happen overnight... How many years did we fight for our independence? And how many wars did we have to fight to preserve it? Hawk