Bush To Mandate Aid To End Tyrannies....

[Flabbergasted]

By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
August 3, 2007


WASHINGTON — President Bush today is scheduled to sign a law mandating that America develop strategies to help tyrannies and police states to make the transition to democracies.

Two years in the drafting, the changes the new Advance Democracy Act would require of the State Department are largely bureaucratic. The bill, for example, would have the State Department create "liaison officers" to reach out to democratic activists in nondemocratic countries and create awards for foreign service officers that promote democracy.

(Apparently Michael Moore is first on his list for the award. :hippie:)

Its likely passage into law comes as Mr. Bush himself has abandoned most of his democracypromotion agenda. Yesterday, 114 members of Congress from both major parties signed a letter to the president to oppose a proposed $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia and other Sunni kingdoms in the Persian Gulf. The arms deal is part of a strategy to unify Israel and the Sunni kingdoms of the Middle East against the rising influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Missing from the new strategy is any remnant of public pressure for these states to afford their citizens the rights of assembly, free speech, or petition.

http://www.nysun.com/article/59795

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How about starting with his own?

[Wiley50]

2. Those who still don't realise they're in Bizzarro World should know now n/t

[Maddy McCall]

3. Good works start at home.

:D

[EFerrari]

6. This is just code/cover for whoever they're going to rip off next.

[babylonsister]

4. My daily response is not printable/would be offensive. 'shivers' nt

[EFerrari]

5. Who is BushCo moving on?

Advance Democracy my remote.

[Kool Kitty]

7. Is this from "The Onion"?