When Is A Democracy Not A Democracy? When it's in...

All the pundits like to talk about forming democracies around the world. But that's really a sad joke, especially in the Middle East.

The "bad guys" like the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iranian theocracy, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro - they all have one thing in common: they all used democracy to set up their non-democratic governments.

Certainly, the people who overturn rogue governments all want democracy and freedom. That's a "gimme". But the "bad guys" use that desire for freedom to get themselves "elected" under promises of freedom, democracy and reform. Once elected, they kill off the democracy and the people end up with a government that is worse than the yoke they had thrown off.

This is what happened among the Palestinians. Hamas ran for office with promises of a better life - they used democracy to get elected. And then they took over. Chavez did the same in Venezuela, like Castro before him in Cuba.

It happened in Iran - the people overthrew the "despotic" Shah, demanding democracy. The "democracy" was then used to put the Islamic theocracy into power. And democracy was immediately throttled out of existence.

And this is precisely what the Muslim Brotherhood plans for Egypt, and, unless King Abdullah outsmarts them, again in Jordan. The Brotherhood's goal is to become THE power throughout the mideast, isolating, then destroying Israel.

And it will all happen under the banner of "democracy."

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