Wednesday, November 08, 2006

The spread of Democracy

The lame duck in the White House has talked a lot in the last few years of spreading Democracy in the Middle East.

He has tried to suppress it here while talking about spreading it over there. Unfortunately, what he's been spreading isn't Democracy.

But you know what just MIGHT actually help spread Democracy in the Middle East?

Last night's election.

Maybe - just MAYBE - Iraqis were taking note of how Americans can change the direction of the country, let their voice be heard, and stop a dictatorial wannabe in his tracks - without war, without suicide bombings, without gunfire, without killing.

Americans' most potent weapons have always been freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion. And a system of LAWS (the one thing that Bush hates more than anything) which guarantees those rights, which guarantees that our voice must be heard, our will obeyed, and which declares that WE are the PRESIDENT'S boss - not the other way around.

Maybe THIS time, that declaration was actually loud enough to hear.

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