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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PK</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=predator75@moscow.com
href="mailto:predator75@moscow.com">predator75@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 27, 2004 8:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Saudi Arabia:
Free and Fair Elections?</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR>DC:<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Ted Moffett</FONT>
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