I think that the opposition to the reconstruction attempts may cause potential problems in Iraq as it did in the US. The South resistance has allowed there to still be prejudice in many parts of the US. I believe that many social problems could occur between different Muslim groups as a result of mixed support of the reconstruction. I also think that Iraq, like the South did, could end up with major economic problems. This could be the result of inexperienced leaders and/or debt from the war.

Both in the civil war reconstruction and today in the Iraqi Reconstruction, resistance was present. The majority of this resistance came from those who originally opposed slavery and those who didn't support the US invasion of Iraq. Both of these groups of people lost their respective wars and are angry about that. They felt like they didn't need the help of these other people. Another similarity between the two is the economic impact it had on the losing sides' economy. The South had raw materials but lacked a large number of factories to process these goods in. In Iraq, the US invasion caused a depression. Now the US is trying to rebuild Iraq as a country. Similarly, the Union did this after the war with the South.

The Northern Whites during the civil war supported the reconstruction and the Radical Republicans along with other government members were the ones that were actually running it. They wanted to punish the South for allowing slavery. I feel like to day in Iraq the Shiite Muslims are similar to the Northern Whites. Both groups supported their respective reconstructions and cooperated well in general with the re-constructors. The Radical Republicans of the civil war reconstruction are similar to the US today. Both groups ran the reconstructions and tried to rebuild what they originally had destroyed or damaged.

Both the Ku Klux Klan and southern whites were very much opposed to the reconstruction after the Civil War. They did not want any help or any involvement from the Union. They still felt strongly about their position on slavery even though they had lost the war and didn't want to be associated with the Union at all. These groups are similar to other groups in Iraq. The Ku Klux Klan is similar to modern terrorist groups similar to Al Qaeda. The southern whites are similar to the Sunni Muslims in Iraq today. The Sunnis were in power when the US invaded Iraq. Therefore, there are resistant to hep and reconstruction attempts by the US.

I was trying to show that we should try and stop fraud problems before they start. However, I don't think that strict photo id laws are the way to do it since they prevent a large amount of eligible citizens from voting.

I believe that some sort of voter id is necessary to prevent any possible problems before they start. However, I don't think that a photo id is necessary seeing that there is a very small number of cases in which voter fraud has been identified. If this becomes an issue, then the photo id law should be brought up and discussed.