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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (216135)	2/3/2007 8:18:01 PM
From: Sultan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Check this out.. There are other speeches there and I might have posted one or two on SI some time ago on some other thread.. akdn.org

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (216135)	2/3/2007 9:34:19 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

As an intellectual exercise I've been trying to make the point that all this blood and money and all this rhetoric about HOW to create a democracy in Iraq assumes a very big fact; that democracy in Iraq would be good thing. It was an easy sell since after decades of "our team's number one," most of Americans immediately thought that democracy would automatically mean good things. Bush and his spinners made sure of that with jingoisms like "democratic governments don't attack their neighbors," and "free men don't engage in terrorism." Algeria was a well known counter example prior to 2003. There was no excuse for stupidity.