No, actually. He asks very different questions.

Mine were more the kind one might discuss in a high school government class. 
They are really quite "black and white", if you will, something that would 
make a decent True / False and multiple choice kind of test, which all of 
our resident consumers of media can probably ace before morning coffee. His 
is more a contemplation motive and intent, state of mind and belief, cause 
and effect. Whether that's something more or something less than what the 
denizens of Drivers' Ed can engage is a matter of opinion. The NY Times 
considered it fit to print, so it's probably Pulitzer material.

I'm just publicly bemoaning the fact that as a member of an educated 
populace, I am so woefully unaware of information that can be had in a fifty 
cent local newspaper. Really, these simple facts are probably too pedestrian 
to merit any serious discussion, and that's why no one has bothered 
answering them. Our time is better spent devising witty word play to demean 
those foolish enough to disagree with our own informed opinions, which are 
after all the only reasonable way to see things. Or emailing the local 
network affiliate to complain that their broadcast of President Bush's 
little speech messed up my recording of "Desperate Housewives".

"Wirt Atmar" wrote:
> Greg asks:
>> What kind of government does the Iraqi constititution define? What kind 
>> of
>>  democracy? Do they have a balance of powers? Branches? A bicameral
>>  legislative body? Parliament? Is it determined by majority vote, or an
>>  electoral college, or representative rule? Is there a chief executive? 
>> If
>>  so, what is his title? In fact, who did they elect to their chief office
>>  anyway? Who can vote? Can women vote? At what age can someone vote? Who
>>  cannot? Non-nationals? Can criminals vote? Those whose crime was
> dissidence?
>>  Who is a non-national or a criminal in a post-Saddam Iraq?
>
> Thomas Friedman of the NY Times asks very much the same questions in 
> today's
> issue of the paper.

Greg Stigers 

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