[antimedia] antimedia: Contrary to the popular opinion of "experts"....

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Contrary to the popular opinion of "experts"....
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   ....that democracy cannot be established by force, an Iraqi member of
   parliament claims that democracy can [1]only be established by force
   in the mideast.

     Interviewer: Democracy has resulted in what is now happening in
     Iraq.
     Iyad Jamal Al-Din: The result of democracy... We don't know... We
     are very far from liberty. Do we even know what to do with the
     values of liberty? The moment Saddam's club was lifted from over
     our heads, each and every one of us wanted to assume Saddam's
     personality. We had one Saddam, and now we have six, seven, ten, or
     fifteen Saddams. We now have local mini-Saddams. I said this before
     the war. I said that America would do us a favor by ridding us of
     Saddam the dictator, but that this favor would be incomplete unless
     it rids us of the opposition parties. But this did not happen
     during the war. These people are photo-copies of Saddam. Saddam was
     in power for 35 years, and so was the leader of this or that
     opposition party - not only in Iraq, but in all Arab and Islamic
     countries. The opposition is the mirror image of the regime. If we
     want to simplify matters, how come Hosni Mubarak has ruled for 23
     power? I want to rule in his place, not because I want to change
     the nature of the regime, to make it a democracy, which respects
     human beings and private property... We are still far from all
     this. Therefore, in my opinion, democracy can be established in our
     region only through force. Democracy must be established by force,
     and only America can do it.

   He may be right. When the people know no other way of living it's
   difficult to break the chains of habit and tradition. The mere fact,
   however, that someone from the region is voicing this on Al Jazeera
   means that there are probably others thinking the same way.
   Less than ten percent of the population of a small, emerging nation
   led to the greatest nation of the world. A similar percentage of
   Iraqis could change their nation as well.

References

   1. http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1351