Bush: Leader of A free world

Don't look now, but Bush's vision for the world - with liberty and democracy spreading across the Middle East - is taking shape.

Elections in Iraq and Afghanistan began the transformation, and two events in as many days have sped the process dramatically.

Over the weekend, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's order that the constitution be changed to allow challengers on the ballot this fall signifies that the world's most populous Arab nation will hold multi-party presidential elections - for the first time - ever.

And just today, in Lebanon, the pro-Syrian government has resigned, paving the way for elections in that country, free of Syrian influence.

What was the impetus for these two most recent events?

Walid Jumblatt, leader of the anti-Syria movement in Lebanon, had this to say last week:

"It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," explains Jumblatt.

"I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world." Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. "The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it."
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This is a truly incredible statement that validates the President's once thought of us 'pie in the sky' foreign policy. Undoubtedly no major American media outlets will pick it up and the Left will continue to harp on Bush's "mis-handling of Iraq" ... meanwhile, liberty will continue to spread and the world will be a better place because Bush is President.