Iran to Bush: Mind Your Own Business

[Snellius]

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iran told President Bush to mind his own business Friday after he called for greater democracy in the region. Similar and equally caustic views were expressed by commentators across the region.

While some commentators stressed that most people in the Middle East genuinely want democracy, Bush's preaching on freedom aroused resentment in a region where America is accused of waging war on Iraq and siding blindly with Israel against the Palestinians.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi condemned Bush's speech, delivered Thursday in Washington, as an ``obvious interference in Iran's internal affairs,'' the country's Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

``No individual, or group, has ever commissioned Mr. Bush to safeguard their rights ... and basically, keeping in mind the dark record of the United States in suppressing the democratic movements around the globe, he is not in a position to talk about such issues,'' Asefi was quoted as saying.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3361141,00.html

[Vitruvius]

1. Not to mention Bu$h*'s "dark record in suppressing democracy" in the US

by stealing the 2000 election, destroying large portions of the Bill of Rights, and more.

And Bu$h admits that he'd like a dictatorship "so long as I'm the dictator", then lectures others on democracy? I guess Bu$h is unembarrassable -- like most sociopaths.

[Sagan]

2. It's not that many in the ME don't want Democracy..

It's just that they have seen what the U.S. in general and this Administration in particular does in the name of democracy.

I don't blame them for wanting no part of it.