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Iraq's Great Leap Forward
By Mike Bayham
January 31, 2005
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Today, Iraqi civil servants take greater pride in their work knowing that their efforts are being made for the betterment of the country instead of a strongman far removed from the ills of his people.
Even in Saddam Hussein's hometown, which has a predominantly Sunni population, there has been a flurry of political activity, though the motivation to become involved with the new government by many partisans there is largely rooted in expediting the departure of coalition forces by "making nice".
While their intentions are hardly laudable from Washington's viewpoint, these Saddam-oriented opponents to the American occupation seemed to have caught on to the concept of advancing an agenda through the ballot and not the bullet. In a nation where governments only changed through a force of arms, it appears that some civic lessons are finally being learned by even the most hardheaded.
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Mike Bayham is author of Right From The Bayou: The Opinions of a Conservative Cajun, which is available at iUniverse.com.
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