The Neo Conservative Position and the Egyptian Revolution

The reason Iran's Green demonstrations of two years ago did not succeed is because the Iranian government shot the protesters and arrested or executed the leaders. It's a certainty that Saddam would have done the same, given that he gassed entire villages. Egypt's revolution succeeded due to the restraint of the US trained Egyptian military. It will be much more bloody in Iran.
I would argue that the Egyptian Revolution is a vindication of the Neo Conservative point of view and George Bush's "Freedom Agenda". If you Google "neoconservative Egyptian" you will see related articles.

Bush wanted first of all to make sure that Iraq was not a threat to the US. Saddam Hussein had the option to leave Iraq and avoid the war. He chose war.
Once we won the war the goal was to establish Iraq as an independent democracy. That would then create a democracy in the middle of a fractious group of totalitarian regimes and would be an example to their people. Now that these countries citizens are revolting against their oppressors we may be seeing the fruits of our labors. The rehabilitation of George Bush's "Freedom Agenda" policy is well underway.

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