Another CIA Revelation

[Peter K.]

>"One of the reasons we don't have more democracies in the Middle East."
>Woolsey continued, "is because we have regarded the Middle East as our
>gas station."  But that's all changed now, the newspaper quoted him as
>saying, and  "the United States is now committed to ending undemocratic
>regimes in the Middle East, and will pursue this objective with both
>diplomacy and force."
>
>The former spy chief criticized the U.S. for not overthrowing Iraqi
>President Saddam Hussein in 1991 and, according to the newspaper account
>"predicted Mr. Saddam's regime in Iraq will be the first Middle Eastern
>dictatorship to be overthrown. When this happens, he said dictators in
>nearby states such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia will get 'nervous.'"

Oh the horror! The horror! Wouldn't semi-democractic - say like Brazil or Venezuela - Arab countries
that surround Israel spell the end of Likud and its rejectionists? Doesn't matter? The US has no
business there?

Peter