id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000051633561 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Iraq, next steps : how can democratic institutions succeed in Iraq and the Middle East? : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, September 24, 2003 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.108-282 2004 .txt text/plain 11886 606 61 We intend to explore what kind of democracy is possible in Iraq and what constitutional ideas are likely Bremer this morning, includes assistance to reach out to the grassroots in Iraq and educate Iraqis on their historic opportunity to develop a new constitution and governance system. the government of the United States has committed itself to the viability of democracy in Iraq, a country which is predominantly Arab and overwhelmingly Muslim. The net result of these and other trends has been that security-minded governments and states dominated most aspects of life in Middle Eastern countries, external powers usually helped to perpetuate this autocracy and lack of democracy, and Saddam, a large percentage of the population, especially its educated middle class, worked for the government directly or indichance to be a political majority for the first time in Iraq's modern ./cache/pst.000051633561.pdf ./txt/pst.000051633561.txt