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Their declaration of war was made in 1979 when they took over the US Embassy in Tehran. Each year they've turned up the heat. Today, their fanatics are everywhere. Then there are also the remnants of Marxist dictators (North Korea). The immediate threat is the apocalpytic, ostensibly suicidal, madmen led by a person like Ahmadinejad in Iran. These battles can only be won with a totally fresh vision of reality. We are all called to participate.

Baghdad, Iraq: Let's stop this festering civil war in its tracks. If a small fraction of business owners work through the Chambers of Commerce in Iraq and through their many employment groups, there will be nobody around to fight.

Shiites and Sunnis will all be working and they'll have no time for fanatical nonsense and tragedies.

First, hire somebody to translate your web site into Arabic. We've done it and we are doing it. Be creative. Get your teams involved.

The Baghdad Job Center will have 1000 translators in line once the word gets out on the street. When we first posted our job opening, there were virtually 15 people who signed up overnight.

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Opening Business through Iraq

If our small businesses were to hire Iraqis to translate our web sites into Arabic, could that help bring peace to the region?

Orlando, Florida: "It may just be a crazy idea, but what would happen if small business owners were to hire Iraqis to translate each of our web sites? And, if this concept has merit, is there any- thing that Commerce, State and SBA could do to create an infrastructure to help make it happen?"

The event was a Town Hall meeting, a part of National Small Business Week. Televised by CNNfn (Friday, May 21), SmallBusinessSchool executive producer Bruce Camber asked Hector Barreto and Don Evans (former US Secretary of Commerce), "Is there something more we small business owners can do to support our troops and bring peace to Iraq?"

The thought behind the question was that such activities could serve everyone's best interests while possibly becoming a key to open new commerce and mutual understanding. After a person translates web pages into Arabic, he/she would be in position to begin advising their small business client to further position those products and services to sell into the Arabic world. The result, extending the essentials of democratic capitalism, might help to change the dynamics of the region.

Camber went on to say, "Prof. Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute was our guest within an episode of the show. He's brilliant! Extraordinary. Inspirational. The ideals that are the bedrock of small business are also the foundations of a country's economic, political and moral systems."

Camber approached Don Evans after the Town Hall meeting and Evans invited him to work with the DOC's Iraqi reconstruction initiative.

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