Sunday, July 23, 2006

Bush's Middle East Democracy Flop

Bush doesn't give a hoot about democracy, or he wouldn't be dismantling ours.

Bush's Middle East Democracy Flop - Los Angeles Times:

THE BUSH administration's plan to bring democracy to the Middle East is now in ruins. In a nation where political responsibility still counted for something, the architects of that strategy would be forced to resign.

Remember the argument for the Iraq war; that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would lead to a stable, democratic Iraq and bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians? Remember the argument that the key problem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was lack of Palestinian democracy? Remember Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's promise that the U.S. would 'support the new Lebanon'?

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