Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Reach out and touch some one!

Here's a list of leads so far...

Alternatively, there's always that old standby, democracy...

As Democracy Push Falters, Bush Feels Like a'Dissident'
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 20, 2007; Page A01

By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated. He had committed his presidency to working toward the goal of "ending tyranny in our world," yet the march of freedom seemed stalled. Just as aggravating was the sense that his own government was not committed to his vision.

As he sat down with opposition leaders from authoritarian societies around the world, he gave voice to his exasperation. "You're not the only dissident," Bush told Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a leader in the resistance to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "I too am a dissident in Washington. Bureaucracy in the United States does not help change. It seems that Mubarak succeeded in brainwashing them."

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