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To: frankw1900 who wrote (119037)	11/9/2003 2:26:57 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) of 281500

re: Bush 11/6/03 speech: 1. How We Denied Democracy to the Middle East: We Created This Place, Weaned the Grotesque Dictators. And We Expect the Arabs to Trust Bush's Promise? by Robert Fisk Published on Saturday, November 8, 2003 by the Independent / UK ...It's all a lie. "We" - the West, Europe, America - never "excused and accommodated" lack of freedom. We endorsed lack of freedom. We created it in the Middle East and supported it. When Colonel Ghaddafi took over Libya, the Foreign Office thought him a much sprightlier figure than King Idriss. We supported the Egyptian generals (aka Gamal Abdul Nasser) when they originally kicked out King Farouk. We - the Brits - created the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan. We - the Brits - put a Hashemite King on the throne of Iraq. And when the Baath party took over from the monarchy in Baghdad, the CIA obligingly handed Saddam's mates the names of all senior communist party members so they could be liquidated. commondreams.org 2. The Demands of Democracy Editorial Published on Saturday, November 8, 2003 by the Boston Globe THERE WAS a lot wrong with President Bush's speech Thursday to the National Endowment for Democracy in which he proclaimed "a new policy: a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East." Whole chapters of history were omitted or distorted. Bush gilded US policy as a purely altruistic affair. Still, he must have been doing something right; Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced Bush's paean to democracy as "obvious interference in Iran's internal affairs." commondreams.org 3. Noble Rhetoric Supports Democracy While Ignoble Policies Support Repression by Stephen Zunes ...he failed even once to say a critical word about any non-democratic U.S. ally in the region. It is noteworthy, for example, that he called for spreading freedom “from Damascus to Tehran” but not from Riyadh to Cairo commondreams.org

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