Posted on 06/23/2009 3:42:45 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
Whatever else former president George W. Bush got wrong, he was right about this at least: "The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder." (Speech to American Enterprise Institute, February 2003.) That is, foster liberty in the world’s most oppressive countries and watch the axis of evil bend, then break.
Look at Iran today.
True, the burden of proof is on anybody who wants to attribute a passion for liberty to Tehran’s crowds. At one point, more than a million people were thought to be out disputing the announced result of their country’s election, which against all likelihood and expectation, handed power to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for another four years. That’s a lot of people demanding, "Where’s my vote?"
But, it could be about the economic shambles. Inflation is high, so is unemployment. Iran exports oil, but must import gasoline.
Ahmadinejad wasn’t running on his record.
Or, they might just really prefer defeated candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi, who presents as sane, while Ahmadinejad is inflammatory and given to apocalyptic visions. (Ahmadinejad reportedly describes to friends how when he spoke at the UN in 2005, he was surrounded by an aura of divine green light: Just as some Christians are no less faithful for finding an unloving televangelist a bit much, so we shouldn’t assume Iranian Muslims are all as keen as Ahmadinejad, to welcome the 12th imam and usher in history’s end .)
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That’s what I thought too!!!!
Nobody in our media has the stones to ask this of our Mullah in chief.... Nobody....They let him act like he is above it all...
I hate the media.
Good luck. He’s already taking credit for it by way of his Cairo speech. And the media will go right along with that story too. They’ll never question it had anything to do with Iraq, at all. And the sheep will lap it all up.
The guys from Gitmo were also followed by the media and had their pictures taken while eating ice cream cones in Bermuda.
Capton 0bama: Let them eat regular cones.
I think it’s safe to say Bush cared about the welfare and future of the Iranian people. MSM in full neurotic twist mode over this no doubt.
‘regular’ cones are known as ‘cake’ cones.
Notice Barrys’ cone is a WAFFLE cone!
I just realized obambi is eating a “waffle” cone, LOL!!!!! Just like his handling of responses to Iranians uprising.
Ha! Beat me by 2 seconds. Drat!
Mark davis, subbing for Rush today, made this point. the last thing Barry wants is credit going to W.
I do remember Pres. Bush saying (paraphrased) that when people in the Middle East see that the Iraqis have freedom, they too will want it. The Big Zero is scared silly that Bush was right.
bttt
Yep - you’re right.
Whatever else former president George W. Bush got wrong, he was right about this at least: "The world has a clear interest in the spread of democratic values, because stable and free nations do not breed the ideologies of murder." (Speech to American Enterprise Institute, February 2003.)
Bush’s legacy will grow and become more and more respected in time.
Hey Obama, where’s your original birth certificate?
Going Iraq was a Twofer with Iran ‘Waffling’
That was stated Years ago by a Smarter Man than Me.
May I repeat...?
Where Is The Birth Certificate ,Barry ?
The zero is such an egomaniac that he thinks that HE can talk the Iranian mullahs to abandon the idea of a nuclear Iran and would rather see the protesters die by the thousands than alienate the mullahs.
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