Bush insists Iran biggest terror sponsor
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
Sun Jan 13
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - President Bush gently nudged authoritarian Arab allies Sunday to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast and saved his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it "the world's leading state-sponsor of terror."
Speaking in this Persian Gulf country, about 150 miles from the shores of Iran, Bush said Tehran threatens nations everywhere and that the United States was "rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late."
The warning about Iran was much tougher than Bush's admonition about spreading democracy in the Middle East, which had been billed as the central theme of his speech.
Well, at least W exhibited restraint & tact in downplaying calls for democracy when speaking from our ally, a non-democratic Emirate!
... If he checked, W might discover that Iran is considerably more democratic than our best buds, the Saudis!
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