Eric Margolis's take on "democratic elections" in mid-east

[glarius]

Margolis is an American anti-Bush Republican living in Toronto and writing for the Toronto Sun....He has been strongly against Bush's Iraq war and has shown nothing but scorn for Bush in his columns.
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'THE BUSH administration is crowing about what it claims is "a wave of democracy and freedom" sweeping the Middle East. And it's all thanks to the invasion of Iraq, insists the White House, offering the umpteenth new rationale for going to war.'
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"All this ham-handed U.S. political engineering may produce a dangerous muddle or even provoke collapse of pro-U.S. despots and their replacement by anti-U.S. revolutionary forces."




http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2005/03/13/959224.html

[brindis_desala]

1. Only simpletons could possibly imagine that by invading an

Arab country on false pretenses after arming their enemy (Israel)to the teeth is going to engender either sympathy for the aggressor or a stable political environment in the Middle East. Apparently a substantial number of US talking heads are quite willing to appear moronic.

[Frances]

2. The cover of The Economist

as well as some U.S. newsmagazines trumpeted just such an idea.

In fact one cover had a picture of a cheering crowd. At the center of the photo was a picture of a young woman with a T-shirt that said Betty Boop.

I could not believe my eyes. The publishers of the magazine want me to believe that a middle Eastern country is going to support Betty Boop-T shirt-wearing females.

I think that's as likely as the U.S. supporting men wearing Osama bin Ladin T-shirts.

[glarius]

3. I think the "talking heads" are looking for an excuse to cover their

acceptance of Bush's Iraq war as legitimate....They have glommed (sp?) on to the Iraq election as that excuse.