Security politics

Posted: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:01 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Democrats, Republicans, Security

USA Today reports that Arab governments "are looking for change in U.S. policy in the Middle East after the midterm elections, hoping a politically weakened President Bush will talk with Iran and Syria, show greater interest in the Palestinians and find a way out of the crisis in Iraq... Non-democratic but pro-U.S. governments in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan now largely shrug off the administration's campaign for strong steps toward democracy."

Before leaving for Georgia today, Bush meets with the special envoy for Sudan. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D) speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

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The Arab governments obviously know as much about the Bush Regime as the Bush Regime knows about them. When they look into each other 'Souls', all they see is 'Oil'. If Dubya can't get Kuwait to be a Democracy, why even learn the word?

Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa (Sent Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:48 AM)

its time to admit the truth bushes noble experiment in democracy in that area of the world is a miserable failure.

mikeeg,abdn,wa (Sent Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:09 AM)

Yeah mikeeg. And Iraq didn't turn out any better, either.

Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa (Sent Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:57 AM)

Dubya has been promoting democracy worldwide, human rights and freedom since he ascended to the throne everyhere EXCEPT HERE!! For the good ol' USA he has curtailed our civil rights (elimination of habeas corpus), taunted and bullied those who disagree, set up his little cabal of criminals to fleece our treasury, used the Religious Right as pawns, slandered war heros who are members of the opposition, spewed lie after lie, involved us in an endless war (IRAQ), broken law after law upsurping Congress' Constitutional power (signing statements) ...OH I have to stop the list here. I don't want someone to discount my comments as ultra-left, or ultra right ect....It is a strange situation for me. I have always considered myself an independant centrist but since our aristocracy has abused their power and trod upon our Constitutional Rights, I find myself being 'labeled' too. Recently as extreme left? Has our center been shifted to the left column because of this collection of shiftless, immoral hypocites? It must have, because my core beliefs haven't changed. Too bad Dubya didn't promote democracy, freedom and justice for all here at home. They had a chance to have make a positive mark in history, now their time in power will be looked down upon as a 'dark age' in America. As in a love relationship, "it really didn't have to be this way" Sad Sad Sad state of affairs. VOTE!!

Owen Vander, Evansville, IN (Sent Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:41 PM)

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