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Wednesday, April 23, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:57 PM:
Shiites' Power Surprises U.S.Bush team hadn't expected force of Islamic insistence on leadership role.
– Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest
I suppose we should have expected this. But we do still have one hell of an army over there if need be. In the meantime, our answer should be the same as it's always been: we're building a democracy where the people can choose. Cicero has been right in his regular insistence that we're going to have to be there a while, and we will. We should inform the Shiites of this and inform them as well that if they make this go poorly for us, we will not have any question as to just how irreligious or secular the governmental system we set up and acclimate the people to will be, that if they want any provision for what it means to be a Muslim in the new government they'll work with us and show that they can handle it.
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