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Bush finds believer in Georgian leader-(Mikhail Saakashvili-"Bush on right side of history!")
WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^
| MAY 13, 2005
| JOSEPH CURL
Posted on 05/13/2005 8:45:30 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The 37-year-old, U.S.-educated freedom fighter who led a popular uprising in 2003 dubbed the "Rose Revolution," which ousted a former top Soviet official from power told The Washington Times yesterday that the U.S. president is on the right side of history.
"It's a new kind of ideology that we have from this president that's kind of crystallized now. It is idealistic. It's a much more moral position, a winning position,"
"I think President Bush was very fast to capture this mood," he added.
The boyish leader of this nation of 4.4 million people sees the sweep of peaceful uprisings in the Middle East and former Soviet Union in the past 18 months as proof that the desire for freedom is universal. Everybody, he said, was cynical about Bush's speech at his second inaugural, which laid out his vision to spread democracy. "But look at what's happening, against all the odds, against all the skeptics, against all the cynical remarks. Appeasement and trying to please dictators, in the long run, it's very stupid policy."
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush43; democracy; foreigntrip; freedom; georgia; georgian; mikhail; president; presidentbush; roserevolution; saakashvili; spreading; tiblisi
Note the coverage of President Bush's visit to Tiblisi, Georgia, as reported (map and all !!) by the
Arizona Republic! Someone should inform the editorial board there, that the president was in a former Soviet republic, not somewhere near Atlanta, then send them an international atlas.
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posted on
05/13/2005 8:45:32 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
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posted on
05/13/2005 8:47:33 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: CHARLITE
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posted on
05/13/2005 8:56:48 PM PDT
by
Arpege92
("I am happy, be it yourselves." - Pope John Paul II)
To: CHARLITE
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posted on
05/13/2005 9:15:03 PM PDT
by
GoLightly
To: jb6; Destro
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posted on
05/13/2005 9:47:01 PM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: CHARLITE
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posted on
05/13/2005 10:18:44 PM PDT
by
jb6
(Truth == Christ)
To: ThreePuttinDude; Beth528; Billthedrill; HonestConservative; SMARTY; Ghost of Philip Marlowe; ...
For your interest - Ping!
Char :)
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posted on
05/13/2005 10:25:21 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
(Not gonna be happy until the Hillster is sent packing.)
To: CHARLITE
Bush and Georgia's faded 'rose' (Soros revolution not so democratic after all)
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posted on
05/13/2005 10:27:07 PM PDT
by
jb6
(Truth == Christ)
To: jb6
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posted on
05/13/2005 10:28:07 PM PDT
by
jb6
(Truth == Christ)
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