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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (58014)	2/16/2005 11:31:16 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

I am still waiting to see when this Administration will get something right. Iraq started with being labeled "an axis of evil". Then soon it became labelled as possessing WMDs and part of the terrorist camp. Then we kept being told that Saddam is a bad man because "he tortures his own people." This after they failed to connect Iraq with terrorism including the alleged meeting between Iraqi intelligence and the mastermind of 9/11. So when there were no WMDs found, no evidence of Saddam's link to Al Qaeda, then we were being told that the US went into Iraq to spread democracy. I didn't think that democracy speaks through the barrel of a gun. I thought that people like Lenin and Mao thrust their political ideology through the barrel of a gun and that democracy is ushered in by the common movement of people like it happened in the Phillipines against Marcos and in the USSR when Yeltsin stood atop a tank and challenged the mighty Soviet troops to shoot him while a sea of Russians stood alongside him. If democracy was easy to usher in the Arab world then Jordan would not be monarchy, Syria would not be ruled by a dynasty, Iran would not be ruled by the Ayatollahs who were welcomed by the Iranians to replace a monarch etc. etc. Let us take a look at India and Pakistan. Both fought for independence from the British. India remains a democracy but "Muslim" Pakistan has consistently been a dictatorship. Their only democratically elected leader, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was assassinated by a dictator.