Democracy dawns in Arab world

The Times (UK) joins the pro American - pro Bush bandwagon.

In quick succession, Palestinians have voted in a free and fair election for a new president, eight million Iraqis have defied the bloody insurgency to elect a representative Government and even conservative Saudi Arabia has tasted its first morsel of democracy in the form of municipal elections.

The campaigns, voting and results have been beamed across the region on the new Arab satellite television channels, which are generating unprecedented political debate among the Arab people and breaking the once powerful state monopoly on information.

While the top-down reforms, often the result of pressure from America and other foreign influences, have sown democratic seeds, it is the dramatic events unfolding at present in Lebanon that offer the real prospect of people power triumphing in a Middle Eastern state.

Often? If it wasn't for George Bush and America none of this would be happening.
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