If the Bush presentation on democratizing the Middle East was not the most
shamelessly hypocritical speech ever delivered, then it certainly must have
been the runner-up. Consider, for a minute, the audacity of an American
President giving advice to the people of a region who have suffered under
tyrannies that have been kept in place, for the most part, to accommodate
the glutinous energy consumption of the American people. Then, consider the
fact the CIA and US corporations have played an aggressive role in deposing
leaders who they didn’t care for, or training the repressive security
apparatus of the various client states.
It would have been more apropos if a “stand-up” comic had delivered the
speech rather than the President of the United States.
Do the people of the region really forget the CIA coup that removed the
democratically elected Iranian leader Mossedegh. Kermit Roosevelt, the main
CIA operative, actually boasted to President Eisenhauer that the mission was
accomplished for less than $1,000,000. A bargain for the US, who wanted
Iranian oil in the control of US industry, not such a good deal for Iranians
who had to endure 25 years of the Shah’s brutal rule.
And wasn’t it the US who assisted Saddam in his rise to power by
providing thousands of names of communists and leftists who may have
entertained the heretical notion that Iraq’s wealth should be divided among
its people? They were all murdered, as the powerbrokers in the US
certainly knew they would be.
And hasn’t the US effectively tried to undermine any popular movement in
the region that might inspire Arab nationalism, preferring to prop up the
corrupt regimes and fiefdoms rather than allow governments with greater
widespread legitimacy to emerge?
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