<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/78f448ea-0e53-468b-9cc3-d3d6b2d79752/5200FE43-E66C-49A5-8D5D-AACF99DD30DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm">On the eve of the invasion of <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>, Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior <ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Middle East</ST1:PLACE> analyst, warned of the dangers of imposing democracy on sovereign nations in the region.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm"><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><STRONG>Citing the bitter memories of western colonialism and imperialism on Arab lands in the first few decades of the 20th century, Bishara predicted that invading <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> would lead to untenable chaos.</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-GB"><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm"><STRONG>His predictions and calls at the time remain poignant today.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">The Bush administration should be careful when it talks about democracy in the <ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Middle East</ST1:PLACE>. The idea is too valuable, and too vital, to be used as cynical camouflage for other agendas, whether those are based on oil interests, or <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Israel</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>'s, or the desire to have a solid military beachhead in a volatile region.<BR /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CA440807-6874-46A7-9C2F-8CDA020185DC.htm"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><SPAN lang="EN-GB">America</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN lang="EN-GB"> does not seem to realise what bitter memories we Arabs have of foreign democracies trying to shape and dominate our region.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5200FE43-E66C-49A5-8D5D-AACF99DD30DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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