Secret US Government Report Says Mideast Democracy Promise=Bushit [View All]

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Secret US Govt Report Says ME Democracy Promise is Bushit

Secret US Government Report Says Mideast Democracy
Promise is Bushit
LA Times reports, "A classified State Dept report expresses doubt that installing a new regime in Iraq will foster the spread of democracy in the Middle East, a claim Bush has made in trying to build support for a war... The report exposes significant divisions within the Bush administration over the so-called democratic domino theory... says that daunting economic and social problems are likely to undermine basic stability in the region for years, let alone prospects for democratic reform. Even if some version of democracy took root - an event the report casts as unlikely - anti-American sentiment is so pervasive that elections in the short term could lead to the rise of Islamic-controlled governments hostile to the US. 'Liberal democracy would be difficult to achieve... Electoral democracy, were it to emerge, could well be subject to exploitation by anti-American elements.'"
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<http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-domino14mar14,0,3372913.>