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Be that as it may...I would only point out that there were no mass revolutions going on before Hussein took the fall. Now why is that, I would ask? I think these protests would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. There was no momentum towards reform, there was no momentum towards challenging one's dictator...the people across the region were asleep, the idea of democracy was dormant. There was the same old same old of local repression and dictatorship. Bush2 comes along with this outrageous idea of Democracy in the Middle East as a solution to another potential 9/11. Go back and read the transcripts...this was his vision of a cure to what ailed 'em. I think we can all agree the region has been in need of reform for a long time; I would posit that - ironically enough - no one put forth the example of civil rights, representative government and everything else the arab street are demanding right this minute moreso than Bush2.
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