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Sunni elites, and Tehran periodically reminds the world that it believes Bahrain should again be a part of Iran, as it was at the height of the Persian Empire.

Republicans for what has happened and believe that equitable taxation will be restored if only the Democrats can win back the White House, there is this disquieting feet: The turning point on tax politics, when the inonied elites first began to win big, occurred in 1978 with the Democratic party fully in power and well before Ronald Reagan came to Washington, Democratic majorities have supported this great shift in tax burden every step of the way.

After the Civil War, a new coalition of southern and northern elites developed, with southern whites and blacks of the lower classes occupied in racial conflict, native workers and immigrant workers clashing in the North, and the farmers dispersed over a big country, while the system of capitalism consolidated itself in industry and government.

A coup could be accomplished only by other Iraqi elites, so we would not have to worry about trying to get a foreign assassin into the insular Iraqi police state.

Because most of the Gulf elites want to see the United States invade Iraq, it is unlikely that they will set the bar very high in terms of the status of Palestinian-Israeli relations prior to an invasion.

Within Iraq, the creation of a new kind of state--especially one that had any of the trappings of democracy--would threaten the interests of many of the existing elites, including the Sunni tribes, the Sunni townsmen from the region west of Baghdad, and whatever is left of the Sunni-dominated military and security services.