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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elroy who wrote (265464)12/21/2005 3:05:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577019
 
Like it or not, this election is a historic moment in ME history. Egyptians, Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians and every other neighboring country's population are going to want to know why occupied Iraq can elect its leaders, but they can't.

I hope you are right. With the exception of Lebanon, the strong and mostly autocratic leaders of the other countries have a strong lock on their people.

As for the Saudis, there is no way they will ever have free elections if you ask me. The royal family is unlikely to voluntarily give up control of the oil purse strings to elected Saudi rulers, because those rulers would likely immediately impound all of the former royal family's wealth as illegally stolen goods.

Do you think revolt is possible?
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