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Old 07-01-2003, 11:42 AM   #3 (permalink)
Slims
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History has shown over and over again that you can't jump straight from an oppressive regime to a democracy. You have to take it in steps or the people won't be able to handle it. Just look what happenned to the soviet union after it broke up.
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