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To: RetiredNow who wrote (220830)	2/25/2005 1:46:23 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1573512

Two rebuttals: 1) the only resistance to democracy in the Middle East is coming from the current despots, theocrats, and Al Qaeda-style terrorists. The vast majority of Muslims in the Middle East want and deserve Democracy. 2) Democracy is not the exception in the world, it is fast becoming the rule. To wit: freedomhouse.org " By the close of our century liberal and electoral democracies clearly predominate, and have expanded significantly in the Third Wave, which has brought democracy to much of the post-Communist world and to Latin America and parts of Asia and Africa. Electoral democracies now represent 120 of the 192 existing countries and constitute 62.5 percent of the world’s population." This is not true. Even some of the former eastern European satellites are not there yet. And some are decidedly undemocratic like Albania and Belarus. There are other countries that claim they are democracies like Lebanon but still have restrictions on certain freedoms. Sorry but I think Freedom House is a neocon spin shop. ted

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