Tuesday, February 17, 2009

ARTICLE: The bloom is off Europe's Rose and Orange revolutions (miamiherald.com)

McClatchy Newspapers

TBILISI, Georgia -- Some four years ago, as he stood before a cheering crowd of tens of thousands, former President George W. Bush declared that Georgia's pro-western government was "inspiring democratic reformers ... across the world."

Georgia's ouster of its Russian-linked leadership in the 2003 Rose Revolution and the following year's U.S.-backed Orange Revolution in Ukraine had sent a message that "freedom will be the future of every nation," Bush said.

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