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Mays, a young Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential area and injured her uncle, August 18, 2004. The leader of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq agreed Wednesday to leave a holy shrine encircled by U.S. Marines, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
Our actions, too, are guided by a vision. We believe that freedom can advance and change lives in the greater Middle East, as it has advanced and changed lives in Asia, and Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and Africa. We believe it is a tragedy of history that in the Middle East -- which gave the world great gifts of law and science and faith -- so many have been held back by lawless tyranny and fanaticism. We believe that when all Middle Eastern peoples are finally allowed to live and think and work and worship as free men and women, they will reclaim the greatness of their own heritage. And when that day comes, the bitterness and burning hatreds that feed terrorism will fade and die away. America and all the world will be safer when hope has returned to the Middle East.
George Bush
President Outlines Steps to Help Iraq Achieve Democracy and Freedom
United States Army War College
May 24, 2004
Is she ready for democracy yet, Mr. Bush?
Mays, a young Iraqi Shi'ite girl, cries after a mortar shell which landed outside the family's home in a Najaf residential area and injured her uncle, August 18, 2004. The leader of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq agreed Wednesday to leave a holy shrine encircled by U.S. Marines, hours after the interim government threatened to storm it and drive out his fighters. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
Our actions, too, are guided by a vision. We believe that freedom can advance and change lives in the greater Middle East, as it has advanced and changed lives in Asia, and Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and Africa. We believe it is a tragedy of history that in the Middle East -- which gave the world great gifts of law and science and faith -- so many have been held back by lawless tyranny and fanaticism. We believe that when all Middle Eastern peoples are finally allowed to live and think and work and worship as free men and women, they will reclaim the greatness of their own heritage. And when that day comes, the bitterness and burning hatreds that feed terrorism will fade and die away. America and all the world will be safer when hope has returned to the Middle East.
George Bush
President Outlines Steps to Help Iraq Achieve Democracy and Freedom
United States Army War College
May 24, 2004
Is she ready for democracy yet, Mr. Bush?
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Paradoxical indeed
I haven't read "Homage to Catalonia" yet. None of the libraries here carry it and I can't afford to buy it
I hope that you are well.
*hugs*,
RM