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>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas on the elections in iraq. >> the real skbe is again not whether it's transformed, not whether in and of it self is tom freedman as others have suggested it going to transform the region. i don't think so i think it was too painful to get to this point it scared off too many people in the region who basically said if this what it takes to build a democracy we don't want a lot a part of it. and i simply don't think that iraq has the potential to be a textbook democracy that others...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas on the elections in iraq. >> the real skbe is again not whether it's transformed, not whether in and of it self is tom freedman as others have suggested it going to transform the region. i don't think so i think it was too painful to get to this point it scared off too many people in the region who basically said if this what it takes to build a democracy we don't want a lot a part of it. and i simply don't think that iraq has the potential to be a textbook democracy that others...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas on the elections in iraq. >> the real skbe is again not whether it's transformed, not whether in and of it self is tom freedman as others have suggested it going to transform the region. i don't think so i think it was too painful to get to this point it scared off too many people in the region who basically said if this what it takes to build a democracy we don't want a lot a part of it. and i simply don't think that iraq has the potential to be a textbook democracy that others...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas on the elections in iraq. >> the real skbe is again not whether it's transformed, not whether in and of it self is tom freedman as others have suggested it going to transform the region. i don't think so i think it was too painful to get to this point it scared off too many people in the region who basically said if this what it takes to build a democracy we don't want a lot a part of it. and i simply don't think that iraq has the potential to be a textbook democracy that others...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haas on the elections in iraq. >> the real skbe is again not whether it's transformed, not whether in and of it self is tom freedman as others have suggested it going to transform the region. i don't think so i think it was too painful to get to this point it scared off too many people in the region who basically said if this what it takes to build a democracy we don't want a lot a part of it. and i simply don't think that iraq has the potential to be a textbook democracy that others...