Dispatch from Down Under

Bush lays off the ultimatums
February 4, 2005

It's what the State of the Union left out that makes it interesting, writes Michael Gawenda.
For all George Bush's rhetoric on spreading freedom and liberty around the world - the clarion call of his second term - he seems to be subtly, but surely, changing his foreign policy.
---Hell yeah hes changing it..Even the blind can see what he WAS doing did not work out too well. Just ask the CIA..or FBI...or just about anyone else not waiting for the Second Coming anytime soon.---
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Pushing ahead with export of liberty

President George Bush argued in his State of the Union speech that only the transformation of dictatorships into democracies would address the resentment and despair that bred terrorism.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107409989585.html
---SOOOOOOO....Does that mean we are taking out Saudi Arabia too...?...Just curious----
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Sharansky's take on war and peace wins Bush's ear
By Megan Goldin in JerusalemFebruary 4, 2005
It has been a long and lonely road for the former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who has for years been ridiculed for his political theories of spreading democracy across the globe to obtain world peace.
But the former labour camp prisoner, who is now an Israeli cabinet minister, no longer walks alone.
His companion in his campaign to democratise the world is no less than the US President, George Bush.
To have the ear of the most powerful leader in the world after decades of having his political ideology dismissed as naive and eccentric is a pleasant change for the diminutive Ukrainian-born mathematician.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/03/1107409990123.html?oneclick=true

---- Soooo...played any alternate reality games lately?-----

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FM: Bush "Is closing his eyes" to Iran’s democracy
Iran slammed the U.S. President George W. Bush’s call for the freedom of the Iranian people as misguided and ignorant of the history of the Islamic republic "with its deep roots of freedom and democracy".
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=6936
-----HAHAHAHAHA Don't the Iranians know they are dealing with a man who NEVER READ history?..And when they tried to brief him he put his hands over his ears and sang LaLaLa very loudly.-----