PNAC 2003 ..... Bush's Iraqi war will help the region .... Wrong Again

Remember all that crap about peace, freedom and democracy spreading throughout the mid east
after the other countries and peoples got to see the results of "Operation Iraqi Freedom?"

And yet Condi goes on the news shows and says it is grotesque to say that "we have
caused the mid east to become less stable."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1646597

2003 Neocon talking points from PNAC.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/global-032303.htm

<But change also brings opportunity. The president’s decision to remove Hussein from power and his work to create a viable, democratic Iraq has already led to a number of positive steps in the region. In Iran, moderates, emboldened by the possibility of a democratic Iraq, are again pushing to reform that cleric-dominated state. In Saudi Arabia, the homeland of 15 of the 19 terrorists who carried out the attacks on the United States, the royal family has for the first time begun serious deliberations with reformers on how to transform and democratize the country. In the Palestinian territories, Yasser Arafat reluctantly agreed to give up much of his day-to-day control over the Palestinian Authority to a new prime minister. And in Egypt, the government has just released its most vocal human-rights advocate.

None of these steps amounts to a revolution in the region. Nor do they mean that positive political transformation throughout the Islamic world will happen easily or without fits, starts and dead ends. However, the early signs suggest that the president is right to believe that the instinct for liberty is not missing from Middle East genes.>