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02-03-2011, 08:38 PM
Flashback.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 17pt'>Bush Calls Democracy Terror's Antidote</span>
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page A16
President Bush said yesterday a fledgling democratic movement that he sees spreading through the Middle East is essential to defeating terrorism, and warned Syria and Iran against thwarting <span style='font-size: 14pt'>the "momentum of freedom"</span> and fomenting instability in the region.
"The chances of democratic progress in the broader Middle East have seemed frozen in place for decades," Bush said at the National Defense University at Fort McNair. <u>"Yet, at last, clearly and suddenly, <span style='font-size: 11pt'>the thaw has begun.</span>" </u>
Following up on his inaugural pledge to "end tyranny around the world," Bush demanded that Syria immediately withdraw its troops from Lebanon, called on both Syria and Iran to stop terrorist activities in the region, <span style='font-size: 17pt'>and directly pressed for open presidential elections in Egypt.</span>
The president sent a stronger message to <u>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who recently announced plans to open up elections in his country to other parties even though his government will control who participates.</u> Bush, putting Mubarak on the spot, delineated <u>what he would consider acceptable conditions for elections in Egypt:</u> <span style='font-size: 20pt'>"freedom of assembly, multiple candidates, free access by those candidates to the media and <u>the right to form political parties</u>." </span></div></div>
...........and now that the Egyptians are protesting in their millions for freedom, the RW response is?
'Muslim..blah blah ..Muslim Brotherhood...blah blah...Muslim...etc etc etc etc.'
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In February 2009 the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was handed a document by her own officials which had this to say about the routine crimes of the Mubarak regime: "Security forces used unwarranted lethal force and tortured and abused detainees, in most cases with impunity … Security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained individuals, in some cases for political purposes, and kept them in prolonged pretrial detention. The executive branch placed limits on and pressured the judiciary. The government's respect for freedoms of press, association and religion declined during the year."
Mubarak is a brutal dictator who has run Egypt as a police state for 30 years with the blessing and support of western powers – Britain included. Mubarak's tyranny is founded on an immense apparatus of repression. His phony democracy, sham elections and manipulated plebiscites would not fool a child. </div></div>
Then again, he is a good friend to Israel.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 17pt'>Bush Calls Democracy Terror's Antidote</span>
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 9, 2005; Page A16
President Bush said yesterday a fledgling democratic movement that he sees spreading through the Middle East is essential to defeating terrorism, and warned Syria and Iran against thwarting <span style='font-size: 14pt'>the "momentum of freedom"</span> and fomenting instability in the region.
"The chances of democratic progress in the broader Middle East have seemed frozen in place for decades," Bush said at the National Defense University at Fort McNair. <u>"Yet, at last, clearly and suddenly, <span style='font-size: 11pt'>the thaw has begun.</span>" </u>
Following up on his inaugural pledge to "end tyranny around the world," Bush demanded that Syria immediately withdraw its troops from Lebanon, called on both Syria and Iran to stop terrorist activities in the region, <span style='font-size: 17pt'>and directly pressed for open presidential elections in Egypt.</span>
The president sent a stronger message to <u>Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who recently announced plans to open up elections in his country to other parties even though his government will control who participates.</u> Bush, putting Mubarak on the spot, delineated <u>what he would consider acceptable conditions for elections in Egypt:</u> <span style='font-size: 20pt'>"freedom of assembly, multiple candidates, free access by those candidates to the media and <u>the right to form political parties</u>." </span></div></div>
...........and now that the Egyptians are protesting in their millions for freedom, the RW response is?
'Muslim..blah blah ..Muslim Brotherhood...blah blah...Muslim...etc etc etc etc.'
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In February 2009 the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was handed a document by her own officials which had this to say about the routine crimes of the Mubarak regime: "Security forces used unwarranted lethal force and tortured and abused detainees, in most cases with impunity … Security forces arbitrarily arrested and detained individuals, in some cases for political purposes, and kept them in prolonged pretrial detention. The executive branch placed limits on and pressured the judiciary. The government's respect for freedoms of press, association and religion declined during the year."
Mubarak is a brutal dictator who has run Egypt as a police state for 30 years with the blessing and support of western powers – Britain included. Mubarak's tyranny is founded on an immense apparatus of repression. His phony democracy, sham elections and manipulated plebiscites would not fool a child. </div></div>
Then again, he is a good friend to Israel.
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