Arabs Say Iraq Vote Gives Democracy a Bad Name
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President Bush sees Sunday's election in  Iraq as a beacon for freedom in the Middle East, but Arab  reformers say the poll will set back their cause.
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RABAT, Morocco, Dec. 11 -- Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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Arab officials and commentators said Tuesday they feared the budding dialogue between Washington and Iran could cut them out of the debate over the future of Iraq, one of the region's most important countries.
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The selection of Iraq's interim national assembly, envisioned as an introductory exercise in legislative democracy, devolved into bitter feuding Wednesday as a slate of independent candidates withdrew from the contest.
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Leading Sunni clerics declared on  Wednesday that any government emerging from Iraq's historic  election would lack legitimacy because many people had  boycotted a poll they said was tainted by a U.S.-led  occupation.
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Many Arab-Americans in the Republican Party say they are sticking by President George W. Bush despite the Iraq war that has stirred up anger worldwide, and their votes could prove to be crucial.
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News reports on Iraq paint a picture of a country trapped in a cycle of violence and destruction. The sceptics and nay-sayers don&#39;t believe Iraqis are ready for democracy.
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Arabs rate improving quality of life  issues as more important than political reform in their  countries and are mostly cool to U.S. involvement in their  internal affairs, according to a new poll released on Monday.
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PARIS - Elections in Iraq are impossible to organize under the current violence, Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah II warned in an interview published Tuesday.
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Some of President Bush's bedrock supporters &#151; Southerners and rural residents &#151; have lost confidence in the likelihood of a stable, democratic Iraq.
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As Iraqis prepare for their national elections, Arab media outlets are providing some of the most intense coverage in recent memory, particularly as many speculate what effect the vote's outcome will have throughout the volatile Middle East.
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Mistakes in Iraq 'must not derail efforts to spread democracy'
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Americans remain sharply divided in their views of how President Bush is handling Iraq, and their confidence that a stable, democratic government will be established in that country has eroded, an Associated Press poll found.
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Saddam may be on trial, and polling day round the corner, but there is no end to the violence caution, compromise and a good deal of fear dog Iraqâs faltering steps toward what its American occupiers hope will become democracy after Iraqis vote six
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Forget for the moment the White House spin about Iraq being the place where Arab pluralistic democracy will be born and from where it will spread throughout the region.
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The elections in Iraq will set an example of democracy for the rest of the Middle East, President Bush said Friday.
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Radical Islamist groups in Iraq said in an Internet statement Thursday they considered democracy &quot;farcial and un-Islamic&quot; and warned that no-one who took part in next month&#39;s polls would be safe.