[Vision2020] Saudi Arabia: Free and Fair Elections?

[Pat Kraut]

I am disappointed by your pessimism which is so much like all you hear from the US Press. But, for me its like this: Paul Cisneros of the new show CSI: New York has been on all the talk shows talking about his project to send school supplies to the kids through the soldiers and this means that the children are learning a new way of life. Most importantly they are learning to read so that they don't have to believe what their leaders tell them they can read it for themselves. The soldiers are helping these kids go to school and stay there. If you don't read beyond the major press you don't know this and everything in Iraq is bad to you...but there is good happening. It won't happen easy or soon...but it can happen. 
PK
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  From: Tbertruss at aol.com 
  To: predator75 at moscow.com ; sunilramalingam at hotmail.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Saudi Arabia: Free and Fair Elections?



  DC:

  We have military bases there, but we are not "occupying" Germany, Japan or Cuba with troops and tanks in their streets.  In South Korea, we have a more active military presence, actually guarding a border, but this is with the relatively stable South Korean government's permission.

  I am pointing out that we could be militarily "occupying" Iraq for decades to prevent all hell from breaking loose (as if with us there now all hell is not breaking loose!).  I doubt that if we leave the security of Iraq to Iraqis that we will see a democratic system emerge.  If we really withdraw and leave the country to whatever the Iraqis come up with, we will see a brutal civil war or another brutal dictatorship.

  Ted Moffett 


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