Another CIA Revelation

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>>"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

So you're suggesting we judge the U.S.'s democratic intentions in the Middle 
East by how much the US establishment supports and protects the democratic 
forms that elected Lula and Chavez?  OK, I'll go with that.

Jenny Brown