solated Freak - I will remain a skeptic till I see freedom of speech restored. Your assertion that the country is not ready for democracy doesn't hold much water because previous attempts to make a country fit for democracy by imposing a dictatorship have produced such shining examples of democracy as the Thid Reich, Mao's China, Saddam's Iraq only to name a... Saddam, Stalin, Hitler and Mao did not believe in liberal democarcy. And they certainly did not want to evolve into a liberal democracy. They ahd their own prefered alternative-fascism in the case of Hitler; Communist utopia in the case of Stalin and Mao; and a Pan-Arabian Nationalism against America and the West in the case od Saddam.