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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (493430)	11/16/2003 3:43:37 AM
From: A. Geiche	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Arab nations frown at American notion of `democracy' The 91-year-old Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz writes a column which is transcribed owing to the author's frailty by a friend every week. The literature Nobel Prize laureate recently expressed his interpretation of America's new vision. "The dumbest thing we could do would be to measure democracy by what we are currently witnessing in Iraq," Mahfouz said. "That would then mean we have finally lost every hope of democracy." taipeitimes.com