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To: one_less who wrote (247252)	11/3/2007 10:20:39 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"That was the common view I heard from Middle Easterners in the 1990s who universally claimed Iraqis would prefer a democracy," I'm sure Iraqis in this country might say that (presumably you weren't interviewing in Iraq)- what would you expect them to say? They're here, in the good old US of A- and many were hoping, like the old Cubans, that we'd take over their former country and install them to "run" Iraq. But Iraqis in Iraq? I don't think so. I'm not sure that the opinions of other ME mean anything- if you were collecting the opinions of non-Iraqis. You did not state it as an opinion. What you said was that there WAS a strong likelihood. What I guess you meant to say was that in your opinion there was a strong likelihood. Can you find any source that will back that up? I've given you sources for my opinion, which was based on many facts about the country itself, and not based on anecdote- I can find many more. Aside from anecdotal statements by ex patriot Iraqis you claim to have spoken to(and we know how valid their opinions are) have you any proof for your opinion? I understand that you might wish that Iraq had a history which included striving for a democratic Iraq, but it just doesn't. The evidence of a puppet parliament just doesn't cut it.