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| November 01, 2004 | Flint, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE EVENTS IN IRAQ, and other countries liberated from oppression, demonstrate the difficulty of implanting a democracy, or as in the case of Iraq, restoring the democracy that was lost in 1958. (It is often forgotten that until 1958 Iraq was a democracy--certainly not a perfect democracy, if there is such an entity, but a democracy nevertheless. Its public service was one of the more honest and efficient in the Arab world. It had a strong and prosperous economy--no one, not even the head of state, could spend public money without lawful authority. And the press enjoyed considerable freedom.)

To put in place a stable democracy, there must first be a system which ...

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