Of course, Saakashvili's "Rose Revolution" never was a democratic movement.  That much is obvious.  So it would be deeply mistaken to describe the continued U.S. backing of Saakashvili as a contradiction or betrayal of the "freedom agenda"--the "freedom agenda"...

According to Iraq's Ministry of the Interior, violence in Iraq as a whole since the end of June has declined 70%.  (One might point out that the media that allegedly never report "the good news from Iraq" have been...reporting some good news when there has been...