Bush and Sharansky

[bluedog]

***************I was wondering about this book...as I haven't read it....anybody know about it?*****************


From a web site:
Bush and Sharansky
With yet another article on President Bush's infatuation with Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy, I'm beginning to think this is the only book he's ever read. This time, it's The Economist that comments on Bush's "intellectual love affair" with the former Soviet dissident. The key quote:

"There are few things that irritate foreign-policy types more about Mr Bush than his Manichean view of the world. His infatuation with Mr Sharansky suggests that he is not likely to be any more 'sophisticated' in his second term. Mr Sharansky not only sees the world in black and white terms—good versus evil and free societies versus 'fear societies', with a bunch of 'realists' dithering in the middle." snip

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/02/04/bush_and_sharansky.html

[Vickers]

1. Just think, if Chimpy spends 9 years in prison, he can write his OWN

fucking The Case for Democracy.

:eyes:

I'd be surprised if that idiot has *ever* read a book.

[bluedog]

2. He used the book for his Jan 20 mspeech?

he worded his speech after this book?
snip.............
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Bush, on Jan. 20: "So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Sharansky, Page 278: "The diversity of the world ensures that there will always be argument and conflict. But I do believe that there can be an end to lasting tyranny - that we can live in a world where no regime that attempts to crush dissent will be tolerated."


Bush, on Jan. 20: "We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery." Sharansky, Page 278: "Just as the institution of slavery has been all but wiped off the face of the earth, so too can government tyranny become a thing of the past." In Jerusalem last week, Sharansky said his conversation about his book with the president convinced him that "he had not only read it but really felt it." The two moved from there to the subject of Iraq, Sharansky said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/30/news/letter.html