I think that the United States is not totally successful in the social asspect of reconstruciton. To this day, racism dating back to the Civil War still exists. In addition, through reconstruction in Iraq, there are people who label others that look like they are middle easterm as terrorists.

I disagree with your point that by having to have identification to vote the government is just trying to control people. In my opinion, by not addressing the possibility that voting fraud may occur, the government is allowing the individuals (impersonators) to take advantage and have CONTROL over others.

I do not believe that enforcing voter ID laws should be considered voter suppression. As I said before a simple system should be set up to give opportunity to those who cannot afford IDs to vote.

I do think that voter ID laws are neccessary to prevent cases of voting fraud. While some argue that there are those who cannot afford identification, I think that a simple system could be set up relativily easiy for those who cannot afford it so that they could be identified to vote. While voting fraud may not affect voting drastically, impersinating another person as a voter is against the law and should be adressed.

I think that reconstruction in the south was a success. While raceism still exists, there is not as great a division between the north and the south as there had been after the civil war. Therefore, I do not believe that reconstruction in Iraq can be, at this point, called a success or a failure. Reconstruction was started by Lincoln and was passed down through several presidencies. Reconstruction in Iraq is nowhere near finished and is being handled differently than the reconstruction done in the south after the Civil War. We will see over the next presidential terms how reconstruction will continue to be handled in Iraq.