From: "Robert Comer" 

> Unlike the Wiemar Republic, and like the 1950s, we won't be leaving them
> to hang afterwards.
>
> A safety net, as it were.

They can never know for sure.  We said we wouldn't leave Vietnam too.

- Bob Comer


"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2004.12.30.03.54.13.330518{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> 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
news:41d171f1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>
>>> "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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