[BW2221]

"President Bush was right, therefore, when he stated that there is nothing unique in the Arab world that prevents it from becoming democratic."

I would say there is a distinct policy that Islam is something unique in the Arab world that prevents it from becoming democratic. Heck, more than 40% of the Muslims in Great Britain want to live under Islamic law.

[Jacquerie]

I would agree with all the naysayers that the Arab world is unfit for representative government were it not for the following facts.

Indonesia is a huge Muslim country with a western style government for these past eight years.

Tremendous voter participation in the Iraqi elections, during a war should make every lazy American ashamed.