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Article: Iraqis must define their own version of democracy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 3, 2003
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Byline: Trudy Rubin
BAGHDAD _ The symbol of today's Iraq might well be the newly trained traffic police who stand at intersections and bravely raise their hands to stop oncoming cars. No one pays the least bit of attention as they speed by the cops.
The same motorists who once would have snapped to attention before any Iraqi uniform now assume no rules apply. In fact, Iraqis no longer know what the rules of daily living are.
They no longer have a proper government _ the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, for those who know it exists, is seen as an extension of U.S. power. Like former citizens of the Soviet Union, Iraqis were accustomed ...