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To: CobaltBlue
While Cuba and Iraq prove that sanctions are better at leading dictators towards democracy?

What eventually took down the South? What took down Iraq?

What took down the USSR? It certainly wasn't trading with them.
29 posted on 12/09/2003 2:20:40 PM PST by lelio
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To: lelio
How many months after the McDonald's went up in Red Square did the Berlin Wall come down? Trade definitely played a role in taking down Russia.
31 posted on 12/09/2003 2:22:46 PM PST by discostu (that's a waste of a perfectly good white boy)
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To: lelio
Last time I looked, Castro was still dictator of Cuba.
39 posted on 12/09/2003 2:34:23 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: lelio
What took down the USSR? It certainly wasn't trading with them.

The taste of liberty makes societies hunger for more.

40 posted on 12/09/2003 2:35:55 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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