President Discusses War on Terror and Upcoming Iraqi Elections (Transcript + press conf!!)
Whitehouse ^ | 12/12/05 | George W. Bush
Posted on 12/12/2005 5:21:59 PM CST by pissant
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Bush Compares U.S., Iraqi Roads to Democracy
American Forces Press Service ^ | Dec 12, 2005 | Donna Miles
Posted on 12/12/2005 6:45:20 PM EST by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2005 – President Bush traveled today to Philadelphia, the birthplace of U.S. democracy, to remind Americans about their own country's bumpy road to democracy and to underscore what he called "miraculous" political progress taking place in Iraq. Three days before Iraqis go to the polls to elect a 275-member parliament, Bush contrasted America's efforts to put a new democratic government in place with those being instituted at a relative lightning speed in Iraq.
America's founders endured naysayers and critics, repeatedly adjusting their approach as they worked toward a constitution that guaranteed personal freedoms, the president noted during his address to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
"The eight years from the end of the Revolutionary War to the election of a constitutional government were a time of disorder and upheaval," Bush said. He pointed to a planned military coup that George Washington personally intervened to defuse, to tensions between the mercantile north and agricultural south, and to opposition from British loyalists who were opposed to independence.
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