CIAO DATE: 04/05

Birth of a Democracy

Reuel Marc Gerecht

February 2005

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

The Iraqi election demonstrated for the first time in Arab history that national sovereignty can be achieved without tyranny. The pictures of courageous Iraqi voters and of the images to follow of the incipient democratic government of Iraq can inspire popular desire to open up regimes throughout the Arab world.

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