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I wonder how "ordinary iraqis" feel about the government of that country. I wonder what life is like for them. The American incursion-to-come supposes that the Iraqis are really waiting for some kind of "liberation," after which they will gleefully frolick in democracy. About this, I am very skeptical. That region of the world has never known democracy, and in fact the countries themselves are the product of British and French schemers of the first world war. It's hard to imagine the place without tribes and without kings. (Although Egypt does pretend to have a democracy.) Anyway, I wonder what the Iraqis think. The only way to know would be to go there. I think I could put myself into that country in a week's time. The flight into Amman, the trek across the desert, sneaking in. Boy would that be a trip. Too bad I don't speak Arabic.