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George W Bush’s “gift” to the Middle East

By Matthew Marlon
Over the last hundred years the tribal traditions of the Middles East have persisted. A King, the patriarch of the Saudi family, runs Saudi Arabia. A strongman tribal leader runs Syria. An aggressive traditional religious theocracy runs Iran. A traditional aggressive tribal strongman ran Iraq. Another neighbor of Iraq is Jordan run by King Abdullah. Then comes George W Bush. He looked at the map of the middle east, he choose the most aggressive brutal dictatorial regime and single handedly with a military coop replaced the aggressive brutal murderous regime of Saddam Hussein with a flourishing Democracy. This was accomplished with chief executive determination over the intense screams of the American left.

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Francisco Franco and the Presidential Campaign

Even some of Sen. Hillary Clinton's most devoted supporters now privately concede the inevitability of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's winning the Democratic presidential nomination. One hint to understanding the mindset of candidate Clinton and her devoted loyalists (the ones who refuse to acknowledge the nonexistence of any semi-plausible path to the nomination) may be found in a story popular in Spain as that country's then-aging dictator lingered in critical condition.

The year was 1975, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the ruthless strongman who with an iron hand had ruled Spain for four decades, lay on his deathbed. The joke then popular in Barcelona went like this:

First Spaniard: "There is good news, and there is bad news."

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