<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 10/11/02 10:29:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, uvj@vsnl.com writes:
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<BR>> Of course we learn in this morning's NY Times that Bush plans to make
<BR>> Gen Tommy Franks the king of Iraq, on the model of MacArthur running
<BR>> Japan after WW II. I'm guessing Gen Franks wouldn't be offering too
<BR>> many contracts to French oil companies.
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<BR>King of Iraq? Some foreign policy analysts here are wondering if Iraq would
<BR>survive as a single unified entity. Would Kurds accept autonomy with the
<BR>framework of Iraqi state?
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<BR>Ulhas
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<BR>One of the wackier scenarios I have seen was on the Russian nightly news program Vremya: Iraq pasted together with Jordan and ruled by King Abdullah. I have not seen that scenario anywhere else but does it play better in the Arab street than King Tommy???
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