From: Jeff Shultz 

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:19:36 -0500, Robert Comer wrote:

>> Iraqis are voting for and electing municipal representatives (as well as
>> selecting over a thousand representatives to the recent national
>> assembly) over most of the country, with both U.S. military and U.S.
>> civilians holding classes to bring them up to speed.
>
> That's not the same thing as experience doing it themselves, and I'm
> talking historical background for democracy, not what's supposedly going
> on right now.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>>
>> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>> news:41d165f6{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Hitler may have been elected, but the way he ran the
country can't be
>>>> called democratic by any stretch of the imagination.  A democratic
>>>> country doesn't herd an entire ethnic/religious group into death
>>>> camps.
>>>
>>> Agreed, but that really wasn't the point, they had some fairly recent
>>> experience with democracy, that's all.
>>

Unlike the Wiemar Republic, and like the 1950s, we won't be leaving them to
hang afterwards.

A safety net, as it were.

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