An errant push for democracy first

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Author(s)	Ralph Peters
Source	USA Today
Date	April 18, 2007
URL	http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/04/post_57.html
Quote	"Because the administration and its partners lacked the vision and fortitude to dismantle Iraq and draw more promising borders for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, the series of elections in which Iraqis braved terror to go to the polls had nothing to do with strengthening a nation and everything to do with empowering ethnic supremacists and religious demagogues."

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This item takes a mixed stance on the position Iraq should be split up on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.