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Giving voice to democratic dissidents
Boston Globe ^ | June 3, 2007 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 06/04/2007 3:42:45 AM PDT by BCrago66

When President Bush addresses the Conference on Democracy and Security in Prague Tuesday, his audience will comprise some of the world's most indomitable champions of democracy and freedom.

Several of them the president already knows, including Natan Sharansky, the renowned former Soviet refusenik; Vaclav Havel, the one time political prisoner and former Czech president; and Chol Hwan Kang, author of "The Aquariums of Pyongyang," a memoir of his years in the North Korean gulag. Many of the others, who will be coming from Egypt, Russia, Syria, Belarus, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, Kosovo, and Iran, Bush will be meeting for the first time.

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1 posted on 06/04/2007 3:42:47 AM PDT by BCrago66
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Bush's freedom agenda got off to a remarkably fast start ... Alas, what many began calling the "Arab Spring" collapsed almost as fast as it began.

Perhaps if the effort had not been sabotaged by the US media, and by the US opposition party, more success could have been achieved.

2 posted on 06/04/2007 4:01:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Perhaps if the effort had not been sabotaged by the US media, and by the US opposition party, more success could have been achieved.”

TRAITORS all!
LLS


3 posted on 06/04/2007 4:06:57 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It ain’t over yet.

The verdict of history is not in, and I think President Bush’s initiative in Iraq will eventually be seen as the catalyst that brought liberty to the Mid-East. I know I’m among the 3 people who still believe that, but anyway...


4 posted on 06/04/2007 4:17:02 AM PDT by BCrago66
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