... then,
"DURING HIS FIRST four years in office, President Bush made impressive strides toward achieving the improbable goal laid out in his second inaugural address--"ending tyranny in our world." American troops liberated 50 million people and midwived representative governments in Afghanistan and Iraq. The United States also provided important support to peaceful uprisings in Ukraine, Georgia, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan. "
... now
"... the Iranian ayatollahs have stepped up their campaign of torturing, jailing and executing dissidents. The Assad regime has arrested more opposition figures at home and continues to intimidate anti-Syrian activists in Lebanon. And, most glaring of all, modern-day pharaoh Mubarak has imprisoned his leading liberal opponent and renewed the draconian "emergency law" that allows indefinite detention of anyone who challenges his rule."
"... because they think that Bush, a lame-duck president with approval ratings in the low 30s, is too feeble to resist."
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