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Ignorance
New York Post ^
| 8/18/03
| Ralph Peters
Posted on 08/18/2003 4:53:31 AM PDT by carton253
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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August 18, 2003 -- WE'LL bag Saddam. We'll continue to break down the diehard support for the old regime. And we'll do our best to give the people of Iraq a chance at greater freedom than they've ever known. But even when the last Ba'athist bullies are rounded up and foreign terrorists tire of achieving martyrdom at our hands, one mighty enemy will remain in Iraq: Ignorance.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ignorance; iraq; iraqicivilians; ralphpeters; rebuildingiraq; wariniraq; waronterror
Excellent article by Ralph Peters.
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posted on
08/18/2003 4:53:32 AM PDT
by
carton253
To: carton253
We can't rebuild Iraq in a day. Changing a culture based on fear, ignorance, and lies is a decades long endeavor. When all is said and done for all our recent setbacks, we're still on track.
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posted on
08/18/2003 4:56:35 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
We have our own problems with the inability to determine fact, wishful thinking, and fantasy. Just consider the OldDominantLiberalMedia, or visit DU.
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posted on
08/18/2003 5:03:45 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
Yes... they're a much tougher nut to crack than Araby.
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posted on
08/18/2003 5:04:40 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: carton253
I'm glad that I am not in charge of deciding when our task in Iraq is finished. It's one thing to overthrow a tyrannical dictator. Quite another to fill the vacuum with a democratic government when the populace doesn't understand the principles it is based on.
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posted on
08/18/2003 5:06:03 AM PDT
by
whipitgood
(influence the children=influence the next society)
To: whipitgood
True. Either it'll happen or it won't. One way or another we'll be out of there within a year.
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posted on
08/18/2003 5:07:50 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: carton253
Excellent article by Ralph Peters.Redundancy!
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:06:20 AM PDT
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
Guilty as charged!! :)
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:28:02 AM PDT
by
carton253
To: carton253
Iraq has no tradition of rational inquiry. If that is so, then the French and the Germans have denied Iraq the use of their most important export: armies of philosophers. There are American philosophers, but just try to pry them off their department chairs.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:32:17 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: carton253
A Ralph Peters bump!
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posted on
08/20/2003 9:59:37 AM PDT
by
Concentrate
(Unintended consequences are, well, unintended.)
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