Carl Gershman, the longtime president of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) where the movement is headquartered, says that the U.S.-government-backed World Movement for Democracy is “an imaginative new mechanism that can facilitate networking, sharing, and solidarity among democrats around the world.”

Bush has said that his administration democratic endeavor would focus first on the Middle East and went one to liberalize Iraqis from The Dictator; (though arresting the target never meant releasing hold on oil pipelines or cheering insurgents fighting 'foreign army' on their land. Who does not know the rest of the story?

Egyptians were a bit amused that the Iraqi leader outshined Mubarak in the American eye as a dictator. When Saddam had a legitimate party behind him, that boasted a fearsome five million members, Mubarak inherited a fabricated body that changed names, and codes maintaining government servants as members and as recruiters (and intimidaters ) of members, since that was The Socialist Union of late Nasser. Mubarak's National Democratic Party , a member of Socialist International, rules a free-market country since 1976.

Inheriting office on the murder of his predecessor: Sadat, on the hands of Islamists in 1981, Mubarak ruled behind the shield of 'martial law', Emergency Law, in Egypt. Every time, Washington pressed him on democratic reform, he would whisper the password: Islamists; and Washington would be silenced.

Where population is made up mostly of those who need a visual symbol to identify their favourite candidate in a vote, where Islamic ways are above reproach and where the educated hardly read more than their national papers that provide more fables than facts, more jargon-ism than journalism, democracy means chaos.

ðWhen an opposition figure that challenged Mubarak's rule was arrested last January, the US read : political vengeance. Secretary of State cancelled a trip to Egypt in objection. In June, she re-explained her cancelled trip as due to a busy schedule. Rice said she had discussed preparations for the elections with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who surprised Washington and other Arab nations in February when he announced his country would hold its first ever multi-party elections. On her visit, she sent mixed messages: on one hand" The world will be watching the Egyptian election"; on the other: " Egypt has its rule of law; and I respect that."

" Not interfering" was the conclusion of Mr. Mubarak, opposition figures, and the Egyptian public. Given the green light, "democratic " Mubarak is running for a fifth term of office and will win. The reason is that Mubarak is running vs Mubarak. Though more than twenty people have decided to run, the prime opponent remains to be controversial Ayman Nour. With all the uproar that surrounded the candidacy of Mr. Nour, he falls short of credibility and public support. Nour, himself, as I learnt as a member of his Tomorrow Party ( resigned in June), is a bogus. He was a government puppet posing as opposition for years, to give the Egyptian administration a more positive profile. He seemed to have believed his own lie that he is now challenging his former master. The court case of forgery against him was strategically called, not fabricated.

Mr. Mubarak who seems to have never trusted his people to approve of him one day, during a prolonged rule of 24 years, and lived with them under "emergency", is adamant to rule for yet another six years. Bush who usually employs military diction when he refers to his democratic movement by phrases like: " global democratic revolution", "forward strategy of freedom" seems to be grooming Egypt as a future target of freedom and democracy by allowing it to sink into its own chaos. "Creative chaos" is a revealing phrase Dr Rice used to describe the status quo of Egyptian politics.

This file does not read WMD, but Human Rights Demolition. Only a revolutionary positive relationship with Israel could crush democracy, Iraqi-style in Egypt. If and when Israel neutralizes its relationship with the Arab world, it will safeguard its interests by leading the US into a safer movement: dictatorship, American-style.