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Juan Cole

"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."

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"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."

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Donna Grant

"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."

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Juan Cole
"I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought."

War

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Juan Cole
"An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth."

Change

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Juan Cole
"Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it."

Success

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Juan Cole
"Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty."

Time

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Juan Cole
"Partisan politics has no place in the classroom."

Politics

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Juan Cole
"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research."

Government

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Juan Cole
"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003."

Shiites

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Juan Cole
"I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously."

Policy

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Juan Cole
"It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship."

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Juan Cole
"I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates."

Policy

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