Dear Muslims and Arabs, Problems in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, and Bahrain?

Absolutely. Democracy has to come from the people. Always did, always will.

Looked at in a certain way, the riots in these Islamic countries sort of prove that Bush was right aboutg one thing: A conventional wisdom was that a secular dictatorship (like Saddam Hussein's) was the only alternative government type to a theocracy likely to be seen in the Islamic middle East. There was no true democracy before Iraq (in the Islamic middle East), And it would not have happened in Iraq except for the Bush led war. Saddam was too strong and too ruthless.

I have neighbors here who used to talk to me all the time of the horrors under Saddam. For instance their two 5 and 6 year old granddaughters (when they lived in Iraq) were bussed directly from their schoolroom along with the other kindigarten age children to witness a mass public hanging. They told me the only crime charged was belonging to a different political party from Hussein's.

It is important to realize torture under Saddam was different than torture under Mubarak. It was more hideous and widespread. Hundreds of thousands of Innocent non combatants were deliberately tortured to death!

There was no other nation on Earth at that time where the government went that far, except Iraq. Here's my issue with Bush. When I watch wwii movies, American prisoners in the Gestapo' jail are proud to stand on the moral issue of not telling their Nazi captors anything except name, rank, and serial number.

The Bush administration seemed to want to extract other information by force. Waterboarding may or not be torture, but it was not a very moral thing to do!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.