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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:<BR>
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>It's not as if Iraqis didn't know how to get electricity and water running:<BR>
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That's when Iraq had a strong and functional state. Ugly, but it did <BR>
keep the electricity flowing. The U.S. destroyed that, nothing works, <BR>
and people are at each other's throats. The conditions are completely <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">^^^^^^^^^<BR>
CB: If Iraqis are so much at each others' throats in disagreement, how can what Christian Parenti said be some kind of consensus of what Iraqis want ? </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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