I can't see anything really positive happening until new leadership takes the reigns. Hopefully the next US administration can steer this misguided ship in the right direction. It's too late now to simply pull out, there has to be a concerted effort, hopefully with more international help, to create some stability in the country. Primarily though, the change has to come from within, it doesn't matter who is occupying Iraq and for how long, if the factions within the Iraqi populous can't make democracy work, it isn't worth even thinking about. And this can only happen through some deep intellectual change within the society, which can take generations.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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