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01/26/2008: "Western "intellectual arrogance" toward Mideast"

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf lashed out Thursday at what he called Western "intellectual arrogance" toward his country, angrily dismissing claims that rising unpopularity has undermined his authority.

"Why doesn't it understand that we maybe are a developing country, we have our flaws, we believe in constitution, we know how to run government, we are not such clueless people who do not know how to run a country, we have our own brains." Video Watch Musharraf blast Western "intellectual arrogance" »

He added, "Unfortunately there is a degree of, may I say, intellectual arrogance that I see in the West which thinks that these developing countries are some kind of people who do not know how to govern, they do not know anything."

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/01/24/musharraf.interview/index.html