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Old 02-01-2006, 11:57 AM   #4
Auburn Annie
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Saddam is hardly unique in Iraqi history, with its coups, tribal warfare, uprisings, etc., at least back to the Ottoman Empire, if not ancient Babylonia itself. What has happened there (and elsewhere) is a combination of "nature abhors a vaccuum" and "absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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