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Originally posted by Undertoad
Bush's speech tonight suggested that we are really pursuing an Arab Democracy so that the rest of the Arab world gets the example and takes the hint.
I leave it to people much smarter than I as to whether that could happen, would happen etc. I really have no clue.
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Not a chance in hell. Though if Bush wanted to make the Saudi's nervous, there's probably no better way.
Unfortunately, we've seen what happens when you get a democracy in strongly religious countries -- they vote in a theocracy.