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The pictures from Kyrgyz capital Bishkek - the morning after "Democratic Revolution"

Exactly one week ago, on Jabnuary 28th, the daily Rasmussen tracking poll of President Bush’s job approval showed Bush with a negative 46%-52% job approval split. After last weekend’s wildly successful elections ni Iraq and equally successful State of the Union speech, the numbers have turned around completely. BUSH JOB APPROVAL Approve 54% Disapprove 45% But the Democrats don’t need to worry because they will always be able to claim that Bush is the first President to have a net job loss during his first…what?…that is no longer true either? Oh never mind. Well they will at least have Howard...

MYRIAM MARQUEZ: DON'T DISMISS CHANGES FOR IRAQI WOMEN Ever since Safia Taleb al-Suhail triumphantly lifted her purple finger at President Bush in Congress -- signaling women's right to vote in a new Iraq -- the critics have wagged a finger back purporting that nothing will change. Oh, really? Where else in the Middle East do women make up almost a third of the parliament? Because that's what happened in Iraq's elections. It includes 45 women among the 140 members of the Shiite party blessed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, hardly known as a liberal. In all, 31 percent of the...

Ran across this site, has some interesting cartoon images on t-shirts etc. with regard to the "Purple Finger Revolution". I got a T with the second image for posterity. BFlag

Addressing a packed Hviezdoslavovo Square in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, President Bush today hailed images of “jubilant Iraqis dancing in the streets last month, holding up ink-stained fingers.” “In recent times, we have witnessed landmark events in the history of liberty: A Rose Revolution in Georgia, an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and now, a Purple Revolution in Iraq.” Developing.... BUSH PRAISES FLAT TAX Thu Feb 24 2005 10:04:04 ET President Bush, who has pledged to reform the U.S. tax code in his second term, today praised the flat tax implemented by Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda of the Slovak Republic. During their...