11-01-2004, 11:17 PM
I don't think I could agree with Deen more. "Democracy" has become an extremely dirty word in parts of the world. The Bush administration has bombed the crap out of Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of Democracy, which made it look like Democracy was the way of bombs and war. If Bush were to have faught this war in the name of oil, money, and power, it would be truer to real life. Democracy has almost always been anti-war.
I was listening to a speaker on NPR (National Public Radio) who said that if Iraqis were now given real, true Democracy, America would not want to see who they elected. If we ever want to see true Democracy in the middle east, we have to stop giving it a bad name by waging wars in its name. Withdrawing from the middle east, not supporting Israel, and discontinuing the practice of taking arab oil at robber baron prices are three majot steps America needs to take.
The war was wrong, I knew that from the start. But genuine Democracy is still possible, but not while the U.S. continues to be the international bully.