Vote to blow bush off course? US’s Iraq plan sinking

Around the time this article will appear, the United States will be preparing for a congressional election that may have a decisive impact on capitalist culture in the Middle East—in other words, on the stated aim of the Bush administration to advance liberal democracy in Arab countries, so exchanges of ideas and money are free, and peoples freer. To be sure, that project is already half a way down into the grave, and dirt is being shoveled over it. Only administration stalwarts still publicly defend the notion that Iraq is a democracy in the making. With American casualties dramatically on the rise, and supporters of the war increasingly doubtful about the conflict’s outcome, there is not only little conviction that advancing Iraqi democracy is even relevant anymore, but there is also a sincere worry among pro-Bush Republicans that Iraq may be the reason why they lose their majority in the