To: NCSteve
You have apparently known very few if any expatriots from Iraq or Iran. The two dozen or so I have worked with have been very ready for democracy, and Saddumb only survived by the great and explicit threats he held over the fate of families. More than one who I knew "had to go back" in order to save their family from threats. This is not a stupid people, and I predict that in 15 years they will be a huge technological force in the MidEast.
20 posted on
03/03/2005 4:12:24 PM PST by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: AFPhys
You have apparently known very few if any expatriots from Iraq or Iran. No, but I have known my share of Iranian, Saudi Arabian, and Lebanese citizens, Muslims all of them. I can tell you from that experience it will take a lot more that an optimistic outlook and best wishes to overcome what the Imams and the Ayatollahs have spent over a thousand years pounding into the culture and society of these people.
23 posted on
03/03/2005 5:43:54 PM PST by
NCSteve
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