Natan Sharansky said President Bush’s policy of democratization has failed because Bush is rushing tyrannies to elections. Bush repeatedly has cited Sharansky, a former Prisoner of Zion and former Israeli Cabinet minister, in touting democratic reforms in the Arab world.
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