id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uc1.b5158270 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 2004 .txt text/plain 6028 244 63 the United States is building a fraternal, democratic nation in Iraq think that if once again, if we are talking about steering Iraq toward democracy first, only an elected government can say that we For unlike any other country in the Middle East (with the exception of Lebanon), Iraq has no single ethnicity-sect can claim a dominating majority over all othpromotion of democracy in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. The demand among the people of our region in the Middle East for democratic institutions is tremendous and it has been I would say that if the United States really wants to promote democracy in the Middle East, and I'm not certain that this is a clear the people in our region are skeptical, but if the United States really is serious about promoting democracy as a long-term goal, I States and the people of the Middle East where we do agree. ./cache/uc1.b5158270.pdf ./txt/uc1.b5158270.txt