Bush: Democracy Is On The March

[FarCenter]

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2005
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The president's speech was described as an update on the war on terrorism, a struggle that he linked with repressive conditions in the Middle East that he said give rise to extremism.

"The advance of hope in the Middle East requires new thinking in the region," the president said. "By now it should be clear that authoritarian rule is not the wave of the future. It is the last gasp of a discredited past."

Mr. Bush said the entire world has "an urgent interest in the progress and hope and freedom in the broader Middle East."

"Our duty is now clear," he said. "For the sake of our long-term security, all free nations must stand with the forces of democracy and justice that have begun to transform the Middle East."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/08/politics/main678778.shtml

The George W Bush plan for democracy in the Middle East seems to be working. He had it right all along.

[Catherina]

1. I'll bet this isn't what he had in mind when he gave that speech. Rec'd n/t

[Botany]

2. I wonder how any of the 1 million + dead's family & friends in Iraq

are feeeling about W's democracy on the march?

[arcane1]

3. He didn't get shit right

He only cares about "democracy" for some and not others, and it's nothing more than a code-word for unregulated free-market economies. I bet he wouldn't be praising "democracy" if it was the House of Saud being surrounded by angry citizens!

[rfranklin]

4. So, he's saying we should overthrow the Saudi princes?

I think that would be okay.